Ivan Tevosian

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
Premier	Georgy Malenkov Nikolai Bulganin
In office 13 June 1949 – 15 March 1953
Premier	Joseph Stalin
People's Commissar for Ferrous Metallurgy
In office 17 April 1940 – 29 July 1948
Premier	Vyacheslav Molotov Joseph Stalin
Preceded by	Fjodor Merkulov
Succeeded by	Anatoli Kuzmin
Candidate member of the 19th Presidium
In office 16 October 1952 – 6 March 1953
Personal details
Born	4 January 1902 Shusha, Russian Empire
Died	30 March 1958(1958-03-30) (aged 56) Moscow, Soviet Union
Nationality	Soviet-Armenian
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1919–1958)
Profession	Civil servant
Awards	Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of Lenin two times, Medal "For Labour Valour"

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]