See Also: Mikoyan, Anastas (Ivanovich)(encyclopedia)
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popliteal cyst (medicine) and Mikoyan, Anastas (Ivanovich) (sh)


popliteal cyst (medicine)


popliteal cyst


A synovial cyst in the popliteal space arising from the semimembranous bursa or the knee joint.


Mikoyan, Anastas (Ivanovich) (sh)




born Nov. 25, 1895, Sanain, Armenia
died Oct. 21, 1978, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.

Russian statesman.

After joining the Bolsheviks in 1915, he became a party leader in the Caucasus. His support of Joseph Stalin earned him a post on the Communist Central Committee (1923). He was commissar of trade from 1926, a member of the Politburo from 1935, and deputy premier (1946-64), directing the country's trade. He supported Nikita Khrushchev's rise to power and became his close adviser and a first deputy premier of the Soviet Union. He was chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1964-65).