The Ministry of Defense Industry (Minoboronprom; russian: Министерство оборонной промышленности СССР) was a
government ministry
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in 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 ...
, 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
People's Commissariat of Munitions
The Ministry of Agricultural Machine Building (Minselmash; russian: Министерство сельскохозяйственного машиностроения СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union. It was charged with the m ...
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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.
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'':
*
Dmitri Ustinov
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(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)