Word: mikoyan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cautionary by Gorbachev. Like Gorbachev, Khrushchev was a larger- than-life figure who, in attempting reforms that pale beside those being tried today but were radical for their time, made powerful enemies within the collective Soviet leadership. Sergei's tale is also a parable of treachery. Even Anastas Mikoyan, then Soviet President and a putative Khrushchev ally, comes off as a bet hedger who bows to pressure from a web of plotters that includes Presidium ((now called Politburo)) members Leonid Brezhnev, Nikolai Podgorny and Mikhail Suslov, Deputy Premier Alexander Shelepin and KGB chief Vladimir Semichastny...
Later that evening Sergei, with his friend Sergo Mikoyan, the son of the President, paid a visit to the apartment of academician Anushavan Arzumanyan, who had spent the previous hours conferring with the elder Mikoyan...
...Anastas Ivanovich has asked me to keep our conversation a secret," said Arzumanyan hesitantly. "But I can tell you. Various charges have been made against Nikita Sergeyevich. Everyone but Mikoyan has formed a single front. Khrushchev is accused of various sins: the unsatisfactory situation in agriculture, disrespectful treatment of members of the Central Committee Presidium and disregard for their opinions, and many other things...
Moreover, while competition is all but unknown in the civilian sector, more than one design bureau might be asked to develop the same weapon. After years of close cooperation with the military establishment, several "families" of weapons producers have evolved. The Sukhoi and Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureaus, for example, produce Sukhoi and MiG jet fighters. Missiles are the specialty of the Yangel, Chelomei and Nadiradze bureaus. Often, test models from rival firms will be put into production simultaneously. The result: in a country where the selection of shoes or overcoats is limited, there are six different types of interceptor jets...
...looking for all the world like spies, which they were. A couple of years ago, the image changed. There still were some of the gray bricks lurking in the drapes, but there were also a growing number of well-tailored young men wearing granny glasses and smiles. Indeed, Vladimir Mikoyan, second secretary in the press office and grandson of the old Bolshevik Anastas Mikoyan, could pass for a Duke University graduate student...