The People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry (Narkomtiazhprom; russian: Народный комиссариат тяжёлой промышленности СССР) was a
government ministry in the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
in 1930s.
Brief overview
The People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry, known by the acronym NKTP, was founded in 1932 out of the
Supreme Soviet of the National Economy and was responsible for all
heavy industrial goods, including mining, machinery and defense goods.
The defense industry assets were separated in December 1936, with the creation of the
People's Commissariat of the Defense Industry 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 ...
, and in August 1937 there was set up the People's Commissariat for Mechanical Engineering.
In early 1939 the NKTP was divided into six separate commissariats.
Succeeding commissariats
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People's Commissariat of the Defense Industry 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 ...
* People's Commissariat for Mechanical Engineering
* People's Commissariat of Fuel Industry
* People's Commissariat of Ferrous Metallurgy
* People's Commissariat of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy
* People's Commissariat of Power Plants and Power Generating Industry
* People's Commissariat of Chemical Industry
* People's Commissariat of Construction Materials Industry
List of people's commissars (ministers)
''Source'':
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Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze,, ; russian: Серго Константинович Орджоникидзе, Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze) born Grigol Konstantines dze Orjonikidze, russian: Григорий Константино ...
(5.1.1932 - 25.2.1937)
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Valery Mezhlauk
Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk (russian: Вале́рий Ива́нович Межла́ук; lv, Valērijs Mežlauks) (1893–1938) was a government and party official in the Soviet Union during the decades of the 1920s and 1930s. He is best re ...
(25.2.1937 - 23.8.1937)
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Lazar Kaganovich (23.8.1937 - 24.1.1939)
Research institutes
Organisations they took responsibility for include:
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Leningrad Military Mechanical Institute
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Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology
The National Science Center Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (KIPT) ( uk, Національний науковий центр «Харківський фізико-технічний інститут»), formerly the Ukrainian Physics ...
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Reactive Scientific Research Institute
Reactive Scientific Research Institute (commonly known by the joint initialism RNII; russian: Реактивный научно-исследовательский институт, Reaktivnyy nauchno-issledovatel’skiy institut) was one of the ...
See also
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Narkomtiazhprom Building
References
{{Departments of the USSR