The Ministry of Heavy Machine Building (Mintyazhmash; ) was a

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in the

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History

The statute of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Machine Building was confirmed by a decree of the

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on 23 April 1939. On 5 June 1941, when the Ministry of Machine Tool and Tool Building Industry was organized, it was given jurisdiction over a number of main administrations formerly belonging to the People's Commissariat of Heavy Machine Building. With the reorganization of the Council of People's Commissars into the

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in 1946, the People's Commissariat of Heavy Machine Building became the Ministry of Heavy Machine Building.

List of ministers

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Vyacheslav Malyshev Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Malyshev (; 3 December 1902 — 20 February 1957) was a Soviet politician and an engineer who was one of the senior program managers in the Soviet program of nuclear weapons during the 1940s and 1950s. He was instr ...

(19.6.1939 - 17.4.1940) * Aleksandr Yefremov (17.4.1940 - 6.6.1941) * Nikolai Kazakov (6.6.1941 - 6.3.1953; 19.4.1954 - 18.7.1955) * Konstantin Petukhov (18.7.1955 - 10.5.1957) * Vladimir Zhigalin (2.10.1965 - 8.4.1982) * Sergei Afanasiev (8.4.1982 - 20.7.1987) *

Vladimir Velichko Vladimir Makarovich Velichko (; born 23 April 1937) is a Soviet official and entrepreneur appointed as the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers in 1991. Life and career Velichko was born into a working-class family in the vill ...

(17.7.1989 - 14.1.1991)

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