Ivan Tevosian | |
Nationality: | Soviet |
Office1: | Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers |
Term Start1: | 7 December 1953 |
Term End1: | 28 December 1956 |
Premier1: | Georgy Malenkov Nikolai Bulganin |
Term Start2: | 13 June 1949 |
Term End2: | 15 March 1953 |
Premier2: | Joseph Stalin |
Office3: | People's Commissar for Ferrous Metallurgy |
Term Start3: | 17 April 1940 |
Term End3: | 29 July 1948 |
Premier3: | Vyacheslav Molotov Joseph Stalin |
Predecessor3: | Fjodor Merkulov |
Successor3: | Anatoli Kuzmin |
Office4: | Candidate member of the 19th Presidium |
Term Start4: | 16 October 1952 |
Term End4: | 6 March 1953 |
Birth Date: | 4 January 1902 |
Birth Place: | Shusha, Russian Empire |
Death Place: | Moscow, Soviet Union |
Profession: | Civil servant |
Party: | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1919–1958) |
Native Name Lang: | ru |
Native Name: |
Ivan Fyodorovich (Hovhannes Tevadrosovich) Tevosian (Russian: Иван Федорович (Тевадросович) Тевосян, Armenian: Հովհաննես Թևատրոսի Թևոսյան; 1902 – 1958) was a Soviet politician of Armenian descent. Hero of Socialist Labor (1943).
Since 1919 Tevosian was the secretary of Russian Communist Party Baku underground committee. Tevosian participated to the 10th Conference of the party.
After finishing the Academy of Mountains in 1927, he worked as the chief engineer of "Elektrostal" factory (Moscow oblast). In 1939-40 he was the Shipbuilding Minister of USSR, in 1940-48 - the Minister of Black Metallurgy, in 1948-49 and again, in the 1950s - the Minister of Metallurgy of USSR, vice-chairman of the Soviet government. Since 1956 Tevosian was the Ambassador of the USSR in Japan.