Gosstandart (russian: Госстандарт) was the
Soviet
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 ...
government agency responsible for standardization, metrology, and quality management. The name is an abbreviation for ''Gosudarstvennyy standart'' (‘State Standard’).
History
Established in 1925 as a committee for standardization within the
USSR Council of Labor and Defence, ''Gosstandart'' was at first put in charge of inspecting measuring instruments used in industrial and agricultural production and later was tasked with developing, updating, and disseminating
GOST standards
GOST (russian: ГОСТ) refers to a set of international technical standards maintained by the ''Euro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (EASC)'', a regional standards organization operating under the auspices of t ...
.
Over the course of its existence, the agency was reformed a number of times, receiving a new name with each transformation: the ''National Committee for Standardization''; the ''Committee for Standards, Metrology, and Measuring Instruments''; the ''State Committee for Standards''; the ''State Committee for Standards and Product Quality Management''. The agency received its nickname, ''Gosstandart'', in 1970.
Later years
After the dissolution of the USSR, the
Russian government
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merged ''Gosstandart'' with ''Gosstandart Rossii.'' The current iteration of the agency in
Russia
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is
Rosstandart
Federal Technical Regulation and Metrology Agency (Rosstandart) (russian: Федеральное агентство по техническому регулированию и метрологии (Росстандарт)) is the Russian federal ...
. In Ukraine, Gosstandart became
Derzhstandart
The State Committee for Technical Regulation and Consumer Policy (spelling in Ukrainian: Derzhspozhivstandard, or DSSU) is the Ukrainian state standards organization, established in 2002. It is the successor to the State Committee of Ukraine for ...
, an abbreviation for ''Derzhavnyy standart''.
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*1925 - 1927
Valerian Kuibyshev
Valerian Vladimirovich Kuybyshev (russian: Валериа́н Влади́мирович Ку́йбышев; – 25 January 1935) was a Russian revolutionary, Red Army officer, and prominent Soviet politician.
Biography
Early years
Bo ...
(Chairman of the Committee for Standardization under the Council of Labor and Defense)
*1927
Gleb Krzhizhanovsky
Gleb Maximilianovich Krzhizhanovsky (russian: Глеб Максимилианович Кржижановский; 24 January 1872 – 31 March 1959) was a Soviet scientist, statesman, revolutionary, Old Bolshevik, and state figure as well as a geo ...
(Chairman of the Council for Standardization under the Council of Labor and Defense)
*1928 - 1932
Friedrich Lengnik Friedrich may refer to:
Names
*Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich''
*Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich''
Other
*Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' ...
(Chairman of the All-Union Committee for Standardization under the Council of Labor and Defense)
*1932 - 1936
Aleksei Gastev
Aleksei Kapitonovich Gastev (russian: Алексей Капитонович Гастев) (8 October 1882, Suzdal, Vladimir Governorate – 15 April 1939, Kommunarka, Moscow) was a Russian revolutionary, a pioneering theorist of the scientif ...
(Chairman of the All-Union Committee for Standardization under the Council of Labor and Defense)
*1940 - 1942 Pavel Zernov (Chairman of the All-Union Committee for Standardization under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR)
*1943 - 1946
Vasily Emelyanov (Chairman of the All-Union Committee for Standardization under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR)
*1954- 1963 Andrey Vyatkin (Chairman of the Committee of Standards, Measures and Measuring Instruments under the Council of Ministers of the USSR)
*1963 - 1984 Vasily Boytsov (Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Standards)
*1984 - 1989 Georgy Kolmogorov (Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Standards)
*1989 - 1992 Valery Sychev (Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Product Quality Management and Standardization, and then of the Committee for Standardization and Metrology under the USSR Cabinet of Ministers)
See also
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State Acceptance of Production
Economy of the Soviet Union
State Committees of the Soviet Union
1925 establishments in the Soviet Union
1991 disestablishments in the Soviet Union
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