ANASTAS MIKOYAN
Economist and political, was born in Sanain (Armenia) in 1895.
Studied in the Nestorian Seminar of Tbilisi (Tiflis), center that
abandoned to the death of their parents. Employed in a shop, must
accomplish large efforts to be earned the sustenance, to the time
that was
beginning their political activities. Soon it was emphasized
as the most qualified organizing of the emerging Communist Party
in the region of Baku, also began to collaborate with various
revolutionary publications. In 1919 directs the Bolshevik
insurrection in Baku and finds the newspapers Sotsialdemokrat
and Izvestya Bakinskogo Soveta. With the victory of the October
Revolution, accedes to the hierarchies of the party, and enters
to form part of the government of the Soviet Union. Of 1926
to 1930s is Delegate of the People for the Trade, and of 1930s
to 1934 Nourishment Delegate, must confront a serious foods scarcity,
as consequence
of some arrears in the plans of collectivization, that his know-how
achieved to solve in little time. Of 1934 to 1938 was proposed
to increase considerably the foods production. In 1935 entered
to form part of the Politburo. After the World War II, it
is appointed Foreign Trade minister (1949), portfolio that performs
of new during the years 1953 to 1955. As of 1955 is first
vice-president of the Ministers Council and member of the Presidium
of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union. In 1959 visited the United States, being interviewed
with Dulles, Eisenhower, Stevenson and others. On account
of the installation of the socialistic regime in Cuba, Mikoyan
it is
commissioner by his country about Cuban government.
