Anastas Mikoyan
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Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan was a Soviet statesman, diplomat, and Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union. As a m
Mikoyan in 1950
Sanahin, Mikoyan's native village, in the Debed River valley of Armenia
1925 Soviet poster: "We will never forget the 26 murdered by English imperialists. 1918, September 20."
The Caucasus trio in 1925. From left to right: Mikoyan, Joseph Stalin and Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Leonid Brezhnev
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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982. He also held office as Chairman of the Pres
Anastas Mikoyan
…1923 to 1976, he was the only Soviet politician who remained in power from Lenin, through the eras of Stalin and Khrushchev, to his retirement under Brezhnev. His longevity inspired the popular Russian saying "from Ilyich [Lenin] to Ilyich [Brezhnev] without heart attack and paralysis". An ethnic Armenian…
Official portrait, 1972
Brezhnev (right) speaks with Nikita Khrushchev, 23 April 1943
Brezhnev in 1950
Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Brezhnev's main patron