ARTEM MIKOYAN WAS A PERSON OF EXCLUSIVE TALENT AND EXCLUSIVE MODESTY, MIKOYAN’S GRANDSON REMEMBERS

Noyan Tapan
Jun 01 2007

YEREVAN, JUNE 1, NOYAN TAPAN. In the opinion of the grandson of one
of the most renowned specialists in aircraft designing in the 20th
century, Artem Mikoyan, the Armenian people has full right to be
proud of the activity of its great son. Businessman Sergei Mikoyan,
who is the son of A. Mikoyan’s daughter, resides in Moscow, but, in
his words, he strives for visiting Armenia as soon as possible. At
the June 1 meeting with journalists he said that he remembers his
childhood with love, when Russian Armenian artists, public figures
gathered at their place. A. Mikoyan, as his grandson witnessed,
was a person of exclusive talent and exclusive modesty.

In S. Mikoyan’s words, in the opinion of many modern specialists, the
aircraft designer as early as many decades ago authored such projects,
at creation of which anothers are just beginning to work. "Suffice it
to say that the first jet-propelled aircraft in the USSR was created
by Artem Mikoyan," Sergei reminded.

He added that though in the recent years, in the 1990-s, some changes
of attitude towards Armenians happened in the Russian environment,
nevertheless, people perceive him and his relatives first if all as
representatives of Mokoyan family and only then as Armenians. As
S. Mikoyan evaluated, in all times in Russia they treated Armenia
better than another Caucasian countries.