Ministry of Defense Industry (Soviet Union)

The Ministry of Defense Industry (Minoboronprom; Russian: Министерство оборонной промышленности СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union, established 8 December 1936.

History

It was originally established on 8 December 1936 as the People's Commissariat of Defence Industry of the USSR on the basis of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry of the USSR. On 11 January 1939, a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR divided the People's Commissariat of Defence Industry of into four departments: the People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry, People's Commissariat of the Shipbuilding Industry, People's Commissariat of Arms and People's Commissariat of Munitions.

The ministry was re-established on 2 March 1965 from the State Committee for Defense Technology. It was responsible for conventional ground forces weapons, solid propellant missiles and optical systems.^[1]

Headquarters

The seat was located in Moscow at the Ulanski alley (Уланский переулок) 16 and 22 in the building (designed by DF Fridman) built in 1936 for the purpose of Metrostroy (Мосметрострой) tube building company. Since 1939 the building was the headquarters of the People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry (Народный комиссариат авиационной промышленности – Наркомавиапром). The phone book does not indicate the address of the Ministry.

List of ministers

Source:^[2]^[3]

Dmitry Ustinov (6 March 1953 – 14 December 1957)
Sergei Zverev (2 October 1963 – 17 December 1978)
Pavel Finogenov (29 January 1979 – 17 July 1989)
Boris Belousov (17 July 1989 – 24 October 1991)

References

^ Directory of Soviet officials. National organizations. National Foreign Assessment Center. February 1989. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
^ "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1917-1964". Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
^ "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1964-1991". Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.

This Soviet Union–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[directory-1] Directory of Soviet officials. National organizations. National Foreign Assessment Center. February 1989. Retrieved 19 November 2017.

[2] "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1917-1964". Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.

[3] "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1964-1991". Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.

[1]

[2]

[3]

v t e All-Union Government of the Soviet Union
All-Union	President and Vice President of the Soviet Union list Presidential Council Federation Council State Council Security Council Premiers
Ministries (list)	Agricultural Products Procurement Agriculture and Food Installation and Special Construction Armament Automobile and Agricultural Machine Building Aviation Industry Building Materials Industry Chemical Industry Chemical and Oil Machinery Building Cellulose and Paper Industry Civil Aviation Coal Industry Commerce Communications Communication Equipment Industry Construction Construction of Fuel Industry Construction of Heavy Industry Construction of Oil and Gas Industry Construction of Petrochemical Machinery Construction of Power Plants Construction of Road Building and Communal Machines Construction of Tool-Machines Cotton Culture Defense Defense Industry Economy Education Electrical Engineering Electrical Power and Electrification Electronics Industry Electrotechnical Industry Environmental Protection Foreign Affairs Ferrous Metallurgy Finance Fishing Industry Foreign Economic Relations Forestry Forestry Industry Fruits and Vegetables Gas Industry General Machine-Building Geology Grain Products Health Housing and Architecture Heavy Machine Building Heavy and Transport Machines Construction Higher Education Industrial Construction Installation and Special Construction Work Instrument-Making, Automation and Control Systems Internal Affairs Iron and Steel Justice Light Industry Land Reclamation and Water Resources Machine Building Machine Building for Animal Husbandry and Fodder Products Machine Building for Light and Food Industry Machine Tool and Tool Building Industry Machinery for Stock Raising and Feeding Manufacture of Communication Media Meat and Dairy Industry Medical Industry Medical and Microbiologiacal Industry Medium Machine-Building Merchant Marine Mineral Fertilizer Production Metallurgy Non-Ferrous Metallurgy Nuclear Power Industry Oil Industry Oil and Gas Industry Oil Processing and Petrochemical Industry Power and Electrification Pulp and Paper Industry Radio Industry Railways Rubber Industry Shipbuilding State Farms State Security Technical Cultivation Textile Industry Timber Industry Timber, Paper and Wood Processing Industry Tool and Tool Building Industry Internal Trade Tractors and Agricultural Machines Transport Construction Urban Construction
Regional ministries	Construction in the Eastern Regions Construction in the Far East and Transbaikal Regions Construction in the Northern and Western Regions Construction in the Southern Regions Construction in the Urals and West Siberian Regions
State Committees and commissions	Building Materials Cinematography Construction Defense Defense Technology Flight Safety Fuel Industry Labour and Social Issues Logistics People's Control Prices Publishing Metallurgy State of Emergency Science and Technology Standards and Product Quality Management State Planning State Security Chairmen Statistics Television and Radio Timber and Paper Industry Transport Construction