The Ministry of Agricultural Machine Building (Minselmash; russian: Министерство сельскохозяйственного машиностроения СССР) was a government ministry in the

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. It was charged with the manufacture of agricultural vehicles and tractors and other machines related to the agricultural industry.

History

On 11 January 1939 the

People's Commissariat of Defence Industry of the USSR The Ministry of Defense Industry (Minoboronprom; russian: Министерство оборонной промышленности СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union, established 8 December 1936. History It was originally esta ...

(''Народный комиссариат оборонной промышленности'') was divided into several departments, among which was the People's Commissariat of Munitions (shortened to NKB in Russian). It oversaw the work of 53 production plants and 12 design offices, five construction companies, 5 universities and 11 technical schools. In 1939 it employed 337,141 workers. The Ministry of Agricultural Machine Building stems from the

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(Glavsel'mash). A law of 29 August 1937 lists the main Administration of Agricultural Machine Building among the main administrations to be transferred from the

People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry The People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry (Narkomtiazhprom; russian: Народный комиссариат тяжёлой промышленности СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union in 1930s. Brief overview The People's ...

to the

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. This main administration was next transferred to the People's Commissariat of Medium Machine Building on 5 February 1939. A ukase of the

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and its enterprises, tractor plants of the People's Commissariat of Medium Machine Building and the

People's Commissariat of Transport Machine Building People's, branded as ''People's Viennaline'' until May 2018, and legally ''Altenrhein Luftfahrt GmbH'', is an Austrian airline headquartered in Vienna. It operates scheduled and charter passenger flights mainly from its base at St. Gallen-Alten ...

, and agricultural machine building plants of the

People's Commissariat of Mortar Armament The People’s Commissariat of Mortar Armament (russian: Народный комиссариат миномётного вооружения СССР) was one of the central offices in the Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Unio ...

into the People's Commissariat of Agricultural Machine Building. By the law of 15 March 1946 which reorganized the Council of People's Commissariats into the

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, the People's Commissariat of Agricultural Machine Building became the Ministry of Agricultural Machine Building.

List of ministers

''Source'': :People's Commissar for Munitions: * Ivan P. Sergeev (11.1.1939 - 8.3.1941) *

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(8.3.1941 - 16.2.1942) *

Boris Vannikov Boris Lvovich Vannikov (russian: Бори́с Льво́вич Ва́нников; 26 August 1897 – 22 February 1962) was a Soviet government official and three-star general. Vannikov was People's Commissar for Defense Industry from Decembe ...

(16.2.1942 - 7.1.1946) :Ministers of Agricultural Machines: *

(7.1.1946 - 26.6.1946) *

Pjotr Goremykin Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived directly from Greek , ''Petros'' (an invented, masculine form of Greek ''petra,'' the word for "rock" or "stone"), which itself was a translation of Aramaic ''Kefa'' ("stone, rock"), the new na ...

(26.6.1946 - 14.3.1951) * Georgi Popov (14.3.1951 - 15.3.1953) :Ministers of Tractors and Agricultural Machines: *

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(2.10.1965 - 10.10.1980) * Aleksandr Yezhevski (10.10.1980 - 19.10.1988)

References

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