Ivan Tevosian
| Ivan Tevosian | |
|---|---|
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | |
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In office 7 December 1953 – 28 December 1956 | |
| Premier |
Nikolai Bulganin Georgy Malenkov |
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In office 13 June 1949 – 15 March 1953 | |
| Premier | Joseph Stalin |
| Candidate member of the 19th Presidium | |
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In office 16 October 1952 – 6 March 1953 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
4 January 1902 Shusha, Russian Empire |
| Died |
30 March 1958 (aged 56) Moscow, Russian SFSR Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Profession | Civil servant |
Ivan Fyodorovich (Hovhannes Tevadrosovich) Tevosian (Russian: Тевосян,Иван Федорович (Тевадросович), 1902, Shusha – 1958, Moscow) was a Soviet statesman and 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, 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.