Stepan Akopov (Russian: Степан Акопов; 14 December 1899 – 9 August 1958) was a Soviet engineer and politician who held several cabinet posts.
[1] Akopov was born in Tbilisi on 14 December 1899 into an Armenian family.
[1] Following his graduation he worked at different state institutions and at the different units of Communist Party of Armenia, including the head of Yerevan branch of the Party and its central committee secretary.
[1] 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.
[1] First Secretary of Communist Party Nikita Khrushchev publicly denounced Akopov in the January 1955 plenum due to the malfunction of the domestic machines.