The Ministry of Construction of Heavy Industry of the USSR (Mintyazhstroy; ) was a

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charged with leading the

heavy industry Heavy industry is an industry that involves one or more characteristics such as large and heavy products; large and heavy equipment and facilities (such as heavy equipment, large machine tools, huge buildings and large-scale infrastructure); o ...

of the

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. It was established in 1946 to replace the several successor Commissariats to the

People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry The People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry (Narkomtiazhprom; ) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. which operated the electric power system in the Soviet Union was subordinated to the commissariat. Brief overview The Peop ...

of the USSR, dissolved in 1939. After liquidation in 1953, it was reactivated from 1967 to 1986. The ministry headquarters was one of the Seven Sisters built during the last 10 years of Stalin's life, also known as the Red Gate building owing to its proximity to the Red Gate Square.

List of ministers

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Pavel Yudin Pavel Fyodorovich Yudin (; – 10 April 1968) was a Soviet philosopher and Communist Party official specialising in the fields of culture and sociology, and later a diplomat. Biography Born in to a family of poor Russian peasants, Yudin work ...

(16.1.1946 - 29.5.1950) * Davyd Raizer (29.5.1950 - 15.3.1953) * Nikolai Goldin (21.2.1967 - 30.1.1986) * Sergei Bashilov (30.1.1986 - 2.9.1986)

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