The Departments of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were all specialised in their own field, for example, the International Department handled Soviet relations with non-ruling

communist parties A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of '' The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ...

Key

* A–U is an abbreviation of All-Union, in this case All-Union Ministries. The All-Union ministries were ministries with no regional ministerial branches in the republics. * U–R is an abbreviation of Union Republic, in this case Union republican ministries. Union republican ministries were either All-Union ministries with republican branches or republican ministries without an All-Union affiliate. * Pres. is short for Presidium, in this case Presidium of the

Council of Ministers A council is a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions. A council may function as a legislature, especially at a town, city or county/ shire level, but most legislative bodies at the state/provincial or ...

. In the tables. Pres. denotes ministers or chairmen of state committees who held seats in the Presidium.

Departments

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Ministry of Defence {{unsourced, date=February 2021 A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is an often-used name for the part of a government responsible for matters of defence, found in state ...

(A–U) *

Ministry of Internal Affairs An interior ministry (sometimes called a ministry of internal affairs or ministry of home affairs) is a government department that is responsible for internal affairs. Lists of current ministries of internal affairs Named "ministry" * Ministry ...

( U–R) *

Ministry of Justice A Ministry of Justice is a common type of government department that serves as a justice ministry. Lists of current ministries of justice Named "Ministry" * Ministry of Justice (Abkhazia) * Ministry of Justice (Afghanistan) * Ministry of Justi ...

(U–R) * Committee for State Security ( Pres.) * Procuracy *

Supreme Court A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts in most legal jurisdictions. Other descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, apex court, and high (or final) court of appeal. Broadly speaking, the decisions of ...

* Civil defense units, included DOSAAF , , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" ,

Agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people ...

, *

Ministry of Agriculture An agriculture ministry (also called an) agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture. The ministry is often headed by a minister ...

( U–R) * Ministry of Agricultural Products Procurement (U–R) * Ministry of Reclamation and Water Management (U–R) *

State Committee for Forestry State may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''State Magazine'', a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State * ''The State'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States * '' Our ...

( Pres.) *

All-Union Agricultural Supply Agency 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 national ...

(Pres.) , * Land cultivation * Mechanisation * Procurements * Reclamations and water economy * Forestry * (Agricultural) science * Special sections for certain territories, for instance, their existed a Northern Caucasus section. , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" ,

Chemical Industry The chemical industry comprises the companies that produce industrial chemicals. Central to the modern world economy, it converts raw materials ( oil, natural gas, air, water, metals, and minerals) into more than 70,000 different products. ...

, * Ministry of Cellulose-Paper Industry ( A–U) * Ministry of Chemical Industry ( U–R) * Ministry of Oil-Refining and Petrochemical Industry (U–R) , , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" ,

Construction Construction is a general term meaning the art and science to form objects, systems, or organizations,"Construction" def. 1.a. 1.b. and 1.c. ''Oxford English Dictionary'' Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) Oxford University Press 2009 and ...

, * Ministry of Assembly and Special Construction ( A–U) * Ministry of Building Materials Industry ( U–R) * Ministry of Construction (U–R) * Ministry of Construction in the Oil and Gas Industry (A–U) *

Ministry of Construction of Heavy Industry The Ministry of Construction of Heavy Industry of the USSR (Mintyazhstroy; russian: Министерство строительства предприятий тяжелой промышленности СССР) was a central government institutio ...

(U–R) * Ministry of Industrial Construction (U–R) * Ministry of Rural Construction (U–R) * Ministry of Timber and Wood-Working Industry (U–R) * Ministry of Transportation Construction (U–R) *

State Committee for Construction The Gosstroy (russian: Госстрой) or State Committee for Construction in the Soviet Union (Gosstroy) was the government body for the implementation of national planning, monitoring and management in the construction sector of the USSR. ...

( Pres.) * Scientific Academy for Construction and Architecture * Union of Architects , * Industrial and transportation construction * Urban economy * Timber and woodworking industry , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" ,

Culture Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups ...

, *

Ministry of Culture Ministry of Culture may refer to: *Ministry of Tourism, Cultural Affairs, Youth and Sports (Albania) * Ministry of Culture (Algeria) *Ministry of Culture (Argentina) *Minister for the Arts (Australia) *Ministry of Culture (Azerbaijan) * Ministry of ...

( U–R) *

State Committee for Cinematography Goskino USSR (russian: link=Yes, Госкино СССР) is the abbreviated name for the USSR State Committee for Cinematography (Государственный комитет по кинематографии СССР) in the Soviet Union. It w ...

( Pres.) * Writers, artists, composers union , * Cinematography * Literature * Musical arts * Theater , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" ,

Defence Industry The arms industry, also known as the arms trade, is a global industry which manufactures and sells weapons and military technology. It consists of a commercial industry involved in the research and development, engineering, production, and s ...

, * Ministry of Aviation Industry ( A–U) * Ministry of Defence Industry (A–U) * Ministry of General Machine Industry (A–U) * Ministry of Medium Machine Industry (A–U) * Ministry of Radio-technical Industry (A–U) *

Ministry of Shipbuilding Industry The People's Commissariat of the Shipbuilding Industry of the USSR (''Народный комиссариат судостроительной промышленности CCCP'') was one of the central offices in the Soviet Union, the equivalent of ...

(A–U) * State Committee for the Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy , , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" , Foreign Cadres , *

Ministry of Foreign Affairs In many countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government department responsible for the state's diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support for a country's citizens who are abroad. The enti ...

( U–R) *

Ministry of Foreign Trade A Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry or variations is a ministry that is concerned with a nation's trade, industry and commerce. Notable examples are: List *Algeria: Ministry of Industry and ...

( A–U) * State Committee for Foreign Economic Ties , , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" ,

General A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". O ...

, * Responsible for handling intra-Secretariat and intra-Central Committee housekeeping, the handling of incoming communications, and security for

classified document Classified information is material that a government body deems to be sensitive information that must be protected. Access is restricted by law or regulation to particular groups of people with the necessary security clearance and need to know, ...

s , , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" ,

Heavy Industry Heavy industry is an industry that involves one or more characteristics such as large and heavy products; large and heavy equipment and facilities (such as heavy equipment, large machine tools, huge buildings and large-scale infrastructure); o ...

, *

Ministry of Coal Industry The Ministry of Coal Industry (Minugleprom; russian: Министерство угольной промышленности СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union. A ukase of the Presidium Supreme Soviet USSR of 28 December 1948 c ...

( U–R) * Ministry of Gas Industry ( A–U) * Ministry of Geology (U–R) * Ministry of Iron and Steel Industry (U–R) * Ministry of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy (U–R) * Ministry of Oil Industry (A–U) , , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" ,

Information Information is an abstract concept that refers to that which has the power to inform. At the most fundamental level information pertains to the interpretation of that which may be sensed. Any natural process that is not completely random, ...

, * Probably supervised

TASS The Russian News Agency TASS (russian: Информацио́нное аге́нтство Росси́и ТАСС, translit=Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii, or Information agency of Russia), abbreviated TASS (russian: ТАСС, label=none) ...

* The department's head acted as

Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; uk, links= no, Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв, . (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1964 and 1 ...

's Press Secretary , , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" ,

International International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * ''International'' (The T ...

, * Responsible for maintaining ties with

in non-socialist states. * Probably supervised the ministries the Foreign Cadres Department was responsible for. , * Africa * Central Europe * Great Britain and the

Commonwealth A commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. Historically, it has been synonymous with "republic". The noun "commonwealth", meaning "public welfare, general good or advantage", dates from the ...

* Latin America * Near East * Southeast Asia * Scandinavia and Iceland * United States * International Social Organizations , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" , Light- and Food Industry , * Ministry of Fisheries ( U–R) * Ministry of Food Industry (U–R) *

Ministry of Light Industry The Ministry of Light Industry (russian: Министерство лёгкой промышленности), also known as Minlegprom, was a government ministry in the Soviet Union which was responsible for consumer goods production. History Th ...

(U–R) *

Ministry of Meat and Dairy Industry The Ministry of Meat and Dairy Industry (Minmyasomolprom; russian: Министерство мясной и молочной промышленности) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union. History The People's Commissariat of Meat and ...

(U–R) , * Fisheries * Food Industry * Meat and Dairy Industry , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" ,

Machinery Industry The machine industry or machinery industry is a subsector of the industry, that produces and maintains machines for consumers, the industry, and most other companies in the economy. This machine industry traditionally belongs to the heavy indu ...

Komsomol The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (russian: link=no, Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи (ВЛКСМ), ), usually known as Komsomol (; russian: Комсомол, links=n ...

Trade unions A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...

, * Individual party card * Leading personnel registration * Party information *

and trade union organs *

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

Moldavian SSR The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic ( ro, Republica Sovietică Socialistă Moldovenească, Moldovan Cyrillic: ) was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union which existed from 1940 to 1991. The republic was formed on 2 August 1940 ...

Estonian SSR The Estonian SSR,, russian: Эстонская ССР officially the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic,, russian: Эстонская Советская Социалистическая Республика was an National delimitation in ...

Lithuanian SSR The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (Lithuanian SSR; lt, Lietuvos Tarybų Socialistinė Respublika; russian: Литовская Советская Социалистическая Республика, Litovskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialistiche ...

Latvian SSR The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (Latvian SSR), also known as Soviet Latvia or simply Latvia, was a federated republic within the Soviet Union, and formally one of its 16 (later 15) constituent Republics of the Soviet Union, republics. Th ...

Belarusian SSR The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, or Byelorussian SSR; be, Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка, Bielaruskaja Savieckaja Sacyjalistyčnaja Respublika; russian: Белор� ...

Soviet Central Asia Soviet Central Asia (russian: link=no, Советская Средняя Азия, Sovetskaya Srednyaya Aziya) was the part of Central Asia administered by the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1991, when the Central Asian republics declared ind ...

(

Kazakh SSR ; kk, Қазақ Советтік Социалистік Республикасы) *1991: Republic of Kazakhstan (russian: Республика Казахстан; kk, Қазақстан Республикасы) , linking_name = the ...

Turkmen SSR Turkmen, Türkmen, Turkoman, or Turkman may refer to: Peoples Historical ethnonym * Turkoman (ethnonym), ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks during the Middle Ages Ethnic groups * Turkmen in Anatolia and the Levant (Seljuk and Ottoman-Turkish des ...

Kyrgyz SSR The Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic (Kirghiz SSR; ky, Кыргыз Советтик Социалисттик Республикасы, Kyrgyz Sovettik Sotsialisttik Respublikasy, ky, Кыргыз ССР, Kyrgyz SSR, russian: Киргизск ...

and

Uzbek SSR Uzbekistan (, ) is the common English name for the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (Uzbek SSR; uz, Ўзбекистон Совет Социалистик Республикаси, Oʻzbekiston Sovet Sotsialistik Respublikasi, in Russian: Уз ...

), Transcaucasia and several important sections for

Russian SFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

territories, such as the Far East Oblast for instance. , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" , Planning and Financial Organs , *

Ministry of Finance A ministry of finance is a part of the government in most countries that is responsible for matters related to the finance. Lists of current ministries of finance Named "Ministry" * Ministry of Finance (Afghanistan) * Ministry of Finance and Ec ...

( U–R) * State Committee for Labor and Social Questions ( Pres.) *

State Committee for Prices Goskomtsen (russian: Госкомцен) was the State Committee on Prices in the former Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eura ...

(Pres.) * State Committee for Supplies Procurement (Pres.) * State Committee for Standards (Pres.) *

State Planning Committee The State Planning Committee, commonly known as Gosplan ( rus, Госплан, , ɡosˈpɫan), was the agency responsible for economic planning, central economic planning in the Soviet Union. Established in 1921 and remaining in existence until ...

(Pres.) *

Central Bank A central bank, reserve bank, or monetary authority is an institution that manages the currency and monetary policy of a country or monetary union, and oversees their commercial banking system. In contrast to a commercial bank, a centra ...

(Pres.) *

Central Statistical Administration The Central Statistical Administration (or Board or Directorate) (russian: Центральное Статистическое Управление), abbreviated TsSU (russian: ЦСУ), was the main statistical organization of the former Soviet ...

(Pres.) * Construction Bank , , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" , Political Administration of the Ministry of Defence , * Political organs in the

armed forces A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. It is typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with its members identifiable by their distinct ...

, and through them, the

, however, the Administrative Organs Department was also responsible for the defence ministry. , , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" ,

Propaganda Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded ...

, * State Committee for Publishing, Printing and Book Trade ( Pres.) * State Committee for Television and Radio (Pres.) * State Committee for Sports and Physical Culture (Pres.) * Propaganda-agitation work conducted by party, state or other organisations, the political education of party cadres, the publishing of

newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, spor ...

s and

journal A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a method of personal organization *Diary, a record of what happened over the course of a day or other period *Daybook, also known as a general journal, a ...

s and cultural work for trade unions. , * Cultural-enlightenment work * Economic education * Mass-political work * Newspapers * Party education * Printing industry and press distribution * Sports and physical culture * Television and Radio , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" , Science and Education , * Responsible for diplomatic ties with ruling

* May have supervised the ministries of the Foreign Cadres Department, at least when it came to relations with ruling-communist parties. , * Economic sciences * Higher educational institutions * Philosophy and scientific communism * Public health and social security * Schools * Specialised secondary- and vocational-technical education. , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" , Trade and Consumers' Services , * Ministry of Trade ( U–R) * Consumers' Coops * Republican ministries responsible for utilities and consumers's services. , , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;" , Transportation-Communications , * Ministry of Communications ( U–R) * Ministry of Merchant Marine ( A–U) * Ministry of Railroads (A–U) *

Ministry of River Transport * Republican ministries responsible for auto-truck transport. , , - , align=left colspan=3, Sources: ''How the Soviet Union is Governed'' (1979
pp. 412–417
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pp. 420–421
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