Ivan Tevosian

{{Short description|Soviet diplomat (1902–1958)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Ivan Tevosian

| image = Germany Soviet delegation (Ivan Tevosian).jpg

| width =

| nationality = Soviet-Armenian

| ethnicity =

| office1 = Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers

| term_start1 = 7 December 1953

| term_end1 = 28 December 1956

| premier1 = Georgy Malenkov
Nikolai Bulganin

| term_start2 = 13 June 1949

| term_end2 = 15 March 1953

| premier2 = Joseph Stalin

| office3 = People's Commissar for Ferrous Metallurgy

| term_start3 = 17 April 1940

| term_end3 = 29 July 1948

| premier3 = Vyacheslav Molotov
Joseph Stalin

| predecessor3 = Fjodor Merkulov

| successor3 = Anatoli Kuzmin

| office4 = Candidate member of the 19th Presidium

| term_start4 = 16 October 1952

| term_end4 = 6 March 1953

| birth_date = 4 January 1902

| birth_place = Shusha, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1958|3|30|1902|1|4|df=y}}

| death_place = Moscow, Soviet Union

| spouse =

| children =

| profession = Civil servant

| party = Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1919–1958)

| caption = Tevosian in 1939

| native_name_lang = ru

| native_name = {{nobold|Иван Тевосян}}
{{nobold|Հովհաննես Թևոսյան}}

| awards = Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of Lenin two times, Medal "For Labour Valour"

}}

Ivan Fyodorovich (Hovhannes Tevadrosovich) Tevosian ({{langx|ru|Иван Федорович (Тевадросович) Тевосян}}, {{langx|hy|Հովհաննես Թևատրոսի Թևոսյան}}; 1902 – 1958) was a Soviet politician of Armenian descent. Hero of Socialist Labor (1943).{{GSEn|109394|Тевосян Иван Федорович}}

Since 1919 Tevosian was the secretary of Russian Communist Party Baku underground committee. Tevosian participated to the 10th Conference of the party.

After finishing the Academy of Mountains in 1927, he worked as the chief engineer of "Elektrostal" factory (Moscow oblast). In 1939-40 he was the Shipbuilding Minister of USSR, in 1940-48 - the Minister of Black Metallurgy, in 1948-49 and again, in the 1950s - the Minister of Metallurgy of USSR, vice-chairman of the Soviet government. Since 1956 Tevosian was the Ambassador of the USSR in Japan.