Anastas Mikoyan

Soviet revolutionary and statesman (1895–1978)

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Lived 1895–1978, aged 83

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1895–1978
Aged 83

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Updated 2026-05-29

Soviet politics' ultimate survivor: Mikoyan stayed in power from Lenin through Stalin, Khrushchev, and into Brezhnev's era—a 53-year run that inspired Russians to joke about his literal invulnerability.

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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 member of the Communist Party's Central Committee from 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".

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