Anastas Mikoyan

Career overview

Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan was born on November 25, 1895, in Sanahin, which is located in present-day Alaverdi, Lori, Armenia. He was an Armenian Communist revolutionary, Old Bolshevik, and Soviet statesman whose career spanned the eras of Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev. Mikoyan was notable as the only Soviet politician who managed to remain at the highest levels of power within the Communist Party while power oscillated between the Central Committee and the Politburo. Early in his political life, he became a convert to the Bolshevik cause and participated in the Baku Commune under the leadership of Stepan Shahumyan during the Russian Civil War.

In the context of the Movie Database, Mikoyan is recorded under the stage name Anastas Mikoyan with a known credit in acting and a total of seven known credits. He is associated with the self-credit in the production Guest from the Island of Freedom. His professional profile lists his gender as male and notes his career involvement alongside his historical and political background.

Mikoyan passed away on October 21, 1978, at the age of 82 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR, which is now in Russia, having lived through multiple eras of Soviet leadership and achieving a long-standing tenure at the upper echelons of Soviet governance.