The Ministry of Medium Machine-Building Industry of the USSR (russian: Министерство среднего машиностроения СССР - Минсредмаш СССР, МСМ СССР) was the

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of the

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that supervised the Soviet

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, including production of

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s. The headquarters was located in

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in the building at Bolshaya Ordynka St. (''Большая Ордынка'') 24-26, currently occupied by the corporation

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History

The basis of the ministry was established since September 1942 the First Chief Directorate (nuclear industry), the Third Chief Directorate (development in the area controlled missiles, aircraft, rockets and long range missiles) of the

Council of Ministers of the USSR The Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( rus, Совет министров СССР, r=Sovet Ministrov SSSR, p=sɐˈvʲet mʲɪˈnʲistrəf ɛsɛsɛˈsɛr; sometimes abbreviated to ''Sovmin'' or referred to as the '' ...

and the Central Board of Industrial Building of the

Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR (MVD; russian: Министерство внутренних дел СССР (МВД)) was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1991. The MVD was established as the successor to the ...

(''Главпромстрой МВД'') charged with construction of nuclear installations. The Ministry of Medium Machine Building was established by Decree of the

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initially believed that the ministry oversaw the war industry. On September 11, 1989, following the merge with the

Ministry of Atomic Energy The Ministry of Atomic Energy (Minatom; russian: Министерство атомной энергетики СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union. Created soon after the Chernobyl disaster, the ministry assumed responsibility f ...

, the Ministry of Medium Machine Building was renamed into the Ministry of Atomic Energy and Industry of the USSR (''Министерство атомной энергетики и промышленности СССР'').

List of ministers

''Source'': *

Vyacheslav Malyshev Viacheslav Aleksandrovich Malyshev (Russian: Вячеслав Александрович Малышев) (3 December 1902 — 20 February 1957) was a Soviet statesman who was one of the leading figures of Soviet industry during the 1940s and 1 ...

(17.7.1953 - 28.2.1955) *

Avraami Zavenyagin Lieutenant-General Avraami Pavlovich Zavenyagin (1 May 1901, Uzlovaya – 31 December 1956; his first name is also sometimes given as Avram or Abraham) was a leading figure in the Soviet nuclear projects of the 1940s and 1950s. Richard Lee Mi ...

(28.2.1955 - 21.1.1956) * Nikolai Smelyakov (21.1.1956 - 10.5.1957) (acting) *

Mikhail Pervukhin Mikhail Georgievich Pervukhin (russian: Михаи́л Гео́ргиевич Перву́хин; 14 October 1904 – 22 July 1978) was a Soviet official during the Stalin Era and Khrushchev Era. He served as a First Deputy Chairman of the C ...

(10.5.1957 - 24.7.1957) * Efim Slavsky (24.7.1957 - 22.11.1986) * Lev Ryabev (22.11.1986 - 17.7.1989) * Oleg Shishkin (17.7.1989 - 25.12.1991)

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* {{Departments of the USSR Nuclear weapons program of the Soviet Union 1953 establishments in the Soviet Union Ministries established in 1953 Nuclear technology in the Soviet Union

History

List of ministers

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