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).[1]

Ivan Tevosian
Иван Тевосян
Հովհաննես Թևոսյան
Tevosian in 1939
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers
In office
7 December 1953 – 28 December 1956
PremierGeorgy Malenkov
Nikolai Bulganin
In office
13 June 1949 – 15 March 1953
PremierJoseph Stalin
People's Commissar for Ferrous Metallurgy
In office
17 April 1940 – 29 July 1948
PremierVyacheslav Molotov
Joseph Stalin
Preceded byFjodor Merkulov
Succeeded byAnatoli Kuzmin
Candidate member of the 19th Presidium
In office
16 October 1952 – 6 March 1953
Personal details
Born4 January 1902
Shusha, Russian Empire
Died30 March 1958(1958-03-30) (aged 56)
Moscow, Soviet Union
NationalitySoviet
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1919–1958)
ProfessionCivil servant

Since 1919 Tevosian was the secretary of Russian Communist Party Baku underground committee. Tevosian participated to the 10th Conference of the party.[1]

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.[1]

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