Stepan Akopov (1899–1958) was a Soviet engineer and politician who held several cabinet posts. He was a member of the Communist Party of Armenia and

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Biography

Akopov was born in

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on 14 December 1899 into an Armenian family. Between 1919 and 1921 he served as the secretary of the Communist Youth of Georgia. In October 1919 he became a member of the Communist Party. He was a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Mechanical Engineering (1922–1924). Following his graduation he worked at different state institutions and at the different units of Communist Party of Armenia, including the head of

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branch of the Party and its central committee secretary. He was part of the group close to

Lavrentiy Beria Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; rus, Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия, Lavréntiy Pávlovich Bériya, p=ˈbʲerʲiə; ka, ლავრენტი ბერია, tr, ; – 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Bolshevik ...

. In 1939 he was named as the deputy commissar of heavy machinery of the Soviet Union and was the first vice commissar of the ministry from May to October 1940. He was made first deputy commissar of medium machine building which he held until 1941 when he was appointed people's commissar of medium machine building. He served in the post until 1946. He was the commissar of automotive industry for one year between 1946 and 1947. Then he served as the minister of automobile and tractor industry from 1947 to 1950. He was appointed deputy minister for agricultural engineering in April 1950 and first deputy minister in March 1953. He was minister of engineering between June 1953 and April 1954 and was named as the minister of automotive, tractor and agricultural machinery between in April 1954. First Secretary of Communist Party

Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev s ...

publicly denounced Akopov in the January 1955 plenum due to the malfunction of the domestic machines. In July 1955 Akopov retired from public offices. He died in Moscow on 9 August 1958.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Akopov, Stepan 20th-century engineers 1899 births 1958 deaths Communist Party of the Soviet Union members People's commissars and ministers of the Soviet Union Soviet mechanical engineers Politicians from Tbilisi Armenian engineers Communist Party of Armenia (Soviet Union) politicians