Committee for operative management of national economy of the Soviet Union (russian: Комитет по оперативному управлению народным хозяйством, Komitet po operativnomu upravleniyu narodnym khozyaistvom) was the official name for the provisional office of state administration of the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
with government functions following dismissal of the
Cabinet of Ministers of the Soviet Union on 28 August 1991.
The
former government of
Valentin Pavlov
Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov (russian: Валéнтин Серге́евич Па́влов; 27 September 1937 – 30 March 2003) was a Soviet official who became a Russian banker following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Born in the c ...
was dissolved following the failed
August Coup
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against
Mikhail Gorbachev and his supporters.
Ivan Silayev, who had been appointed chairman of the newly formed committee on 24 August with the task of finding a new government, was instead granted on 28 August the authority of the dissolved cabinet of ministers and de facto the office of the Premier. The dissolution of the committee had been declared by Russian President
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...
through presidential decree on 19 December (without confirmation by Soviet President Gorbachev), the deputy chairs retired on that day, but the chair and ministers continued to work until the resignation of President Gorbachev on 25 December.
On 5 September 1991 the
Inter-Republican Economic Committee of the USSRЗакон СССР от 5 сентября 1991 года № 2392-I «Об органах государственной власти и управления Союза ССР в переходный период»
/ref> (headed by Silayev also) was established as an additional, more important and powerful body and was on 14 November transformed into the Interstate Economic Committee of the Economic Community, a body which sought to become an international body tasked with coordinating the economies of the remaining and former Soviet republics. Yet, the national Soviet Committee for operative management continued to work alongside the Inter-Republican/Interstate Committee and function as the nation's government until the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Ministries
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References
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1991 disestablishments in the Soviet Union