Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan biography

Born on November 13 25 in the village of Sanain now the Tumanyansky district of the Republic of Armenia. He graduated from the Armenian Theological Seminary in Tiflis now - Tbilisi - the capital of Georgia, studied at the Spiritual Academy of Echmiadzin. He promoted the Bolshevik slogans in Tiflis, Baku; He was a member of the Tiflis Committee of the Bolshevik party.

In October, after the victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution, A. Mikoyan took part in the work of the 1st Congress of the Caucasian Bolshevik organizations, was a member of the Presidium of the Baku Committee of the Bolsheviks, edited the newspaper Social Democrat and Izvestia of the Baku Council. In March, he took an active part in the suppression of the counter -revolutionary rebellion of the Musavatists.

In the summer of the year, during the struggle for Baku with the German-Turkish troops, he was the commissar of the Red Army brigade. In the year, after the temporary fall of Soviet power in Baku, with the entry into the city of English interventionists, Anastas Mikoyan was the chairman of the underground city committee of the party. He made an attempt to free the arrested Baku commissars, but he himself was arrested in Krasnovodsk, and almost escaped the execution.

Since March, he headed the underground party organization of Azerbaijan, was a member of the Caucasian Regional Party Committee. Having established contact with Moscow and Astrakhan, he organized the delivery of oil products for the Soviet Republic. On the night of April 28, the Baku proletariat raised an armed uprising prepared by decision of the 1st Congress of the Communist Party of the Bolsheviks of Azerbaijan.

Anastas Mikoyan arrived in Baku with an advanced detachment of armored trains aimed at supporting the rebels, where he was left at a leading party work. Since October, he was in a leading party work in Nizhny Novgorod. In years - the secretary of the Nizhny Novgorod provincial committee of the RCP b. In years - the secretary of the North Caucasus Regional Party Committee.

Mikoyan, who held the post of People's Commissioner of the Food Industry of the USSR until January 19. During the Great Patriotic War of the year - Chairman of the Committee of Food and Empage Supply of the Red Army. He exercised proper control over the organization of the supply of the army; At the same time, he was a member of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR to restore the national economy in areas exempted from Nazi invaders.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 30, "For special merits in the field of setting the Red Army supply work in difficult wartime conditions," Mikoyan Anastas Ivanovich was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Hoom and Hammer. Until March 4, he held the post of People's Commissar with the Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR.

From the year - retired. A candidate for a member of the Central Committee 2. He lived in Moscow.

He died on October 21. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery. The works of Lenin were awarded with 6 Orders of Lenin: thoughts and memories of Lenin. Zenkovich N. The most closed people. Encyclopedia of biographies. Medvedev Roy. They surrounded Stalin. Moscow, Politizdat, International Patriotic Internet project "Heroes of the country".