Putting The Mi In MiG

PUTTING THE MI IN MIG

National Review Online
Aug 8 2013

By Mark Krikorian
August 8, 2013 4:46 PM

When you’re member of a small tribe, every appearance by a paisano is
notable. Did you know the Delta faucet was invented by Alex Manoogian?

Or that the newborn Prince George Alexander Louis is 1/512th Armenian?

(His great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother, Eliza Kewark,
was half Armenian, half Indian.) And that Principal Skinner’s real
name is Armin Tamzarian?

Anyway, I just went through the slide show on MiG monuments on
NRO’s home page (no link, you just have to scroll down) and saw to
my consternation that it missed the most notable such monument. In
Sanahin, in northern Armenia, there’s one at the museum to the Mikoyan
brothers, one of whom, Artyom, was an aircraft designer who’s the
“Mi” in MiG (Mikhail Gurevich provided the “G”). Some pictures of
the museum are here, including this one:

(The other Mikoyan brother, Anastas, was a wily SOB who was the only
old Boshevik to outlive Lenin, Stalin, and Khrushchev and die in bed.)

From: A. Papazian