Ivan Tevosian Explained

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.