State Supplies of the USSR, known as the Gossnab of USSR () was active from 1948 to 1953, and 1965 to 1991. Its full name was the State Committee for Material and Technical Supply of the

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. Its primary responsibility was the wholesale allocation of material and technical goods to state 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

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, the administrative arm of the

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, along with other economic organs such as

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(the state planning committee) and

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(the state bank). Created amid a series of economic reforms implemented under

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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. The Gossnab coordinated with the USSR State Planning Committee (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 - * 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

Chairmen of the Gossnab

See also

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