State Supplies of the USSR, known as the Gossnab of USSR (russian: Госснаб СССР) was active from 1948 to 1953, and 1965 to 1991. It was the state committee for material technical supply in the

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. It was charged with the primary responsibility for the allocation of producer goods to enterprises, a critical state function in the absence of

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s. Gossnab was one of more than twenty state committees under the Council of Ministers, the administrative arm of the

Soviet government The Government of the Soviet Union ( rus, Прави́тельство СССР, p=prɐˈvʲitʲɪlʲstvə ɛs ɛs ɛs ˈɛr, r=Pravítelstvo SSSR, lang=no), formally the All-Union Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, commonly ab ...

, along with other economic organs such as

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(the state planning committee) and Gosbank (the state bank). Created amid a series of economic reforms implemented under Premier

Alexei Kosygin Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin ( rus, Алексе́й Никола́евич Косы́гин, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsɨɡʲɪn; – 18 December 1980) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as the Premi ...

in the mid-1960s, Gossnab coordinated the allocation of resources not handled by

. Gossnab had mixed success in creating a wholesale trade system, based on direct contracts between suppliers and users.

Narkomprod

Originally founded in 1917 as the People's Commissariat for Food Supplies (russian: Наркомпрод, Народный комиссариат продовольствия, translit. ''Narodny Commissariat Prodovolstviya'', often abbreviated as Narkomprod) was the

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(ministry) of the

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in charge of food supplies and industrial goods. The first Commissar was Ivan Teodorovich. There were several subsidiary organisations: * 1918 - 1919 - Central Procurement Bureau (Tsentrozakup) * 1917 - 1918 - Special Commissioner for the Supply of Food for Workers in Enterprises Preparing Fuel for the Country (Khleboles) * 1918 - 1920 - General Directorate of the Distribution Products (Glavproduct) * 1918 - 1920 - Extraordinary Regional Committee for Food and Supply of the South of Russia (Chokprod) * 1918 - 1919 - United bureaus of Russian food and cooperative organizations for food * 1919 - 1922 - Central Commission for the Supply of Workers (Tsekorabsnab) The Narkomprod was responsible in June 1918 for the attempted organisation of ' committees of the poor' in provincial

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s. This was an attempt to encourage a '

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' in the countryside but it did not materialise, mainly because the

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were not resentful of '

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' (rich peasants) as there was a tendency for all peasants to have the same interests (for example, their own

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Commissars

* Ivan Teodorovich (1875-1937) (Russian Иван Адольфович Теодорович), 1917-1917 *

Alexander Schlichter Alexander Grigorievich Schlichter (Ukrainian: Александр Григорьевич Шлихтер; 1 September, 1868 – 2 December, 1940) was a Ukrainian Bolshevik politician, Soviet statesman, political scientist and economist. Schlichter ...

(1868-1940) (Russian Александр Григорьевич Шлихтер), 1917-1918 * Alexander Zjurupa (1870-1928) (Russian Александр Дмитриевич Цюрупа), 1918-1921 * Nikolai Bryukhanov (1878-1938) (Russian Николай Павлович Брюханов), 1921-1923 * Moisei Kalmanovich (1888-1937) (Russian Моисей Иосифович Калманович), 1923-1924

Reformation as Gossnab

The Commissariat was reformed as a state committee in 1948. It performed the functions of: implementation of plans for material and technical supply, distribution of products to consumers according to the established nomenclature, ensuring inter-industry cooperative supplies, monitoring the timeliness of implementation of product delivery plans . The Gossnab coordinated with the USSR

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 ...

(Gosplan), the

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of the USSR and the sectoral ministries and departments of the USSR and the Union republics.

Chairmen of the Gossnab

* 1947 - 1952 - Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich * 1952 - 1953 - Ivan Grigorievich Kabanov * 1965 - 1976 - Veniamin Emmanuilovich Dymshits * 1976 - 1985 - Nikolai Vasilievich Martynov * 1985 - 1989 - Lev Alekseevich Voronin * 1989 - 1991 - Pavel Ivanovich Mostovoy

References

State Committees of the Soviet Union Economy of the Soviet Union Economic planning 1948 establishments in the Soviet Union 1965 establishments in the Soviet Union {{USSR-stub

Narkomprod

Commissars

Reformation as Gossnab

Chairmen of the Gossnab

See also

References