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The Ministry of Medium Machine-Building (, also known as Sredmash) was a government ministry of the
Age of sredmash
* {{Departments of the USSR Nuclear weapons program of the Soviet Union 1953 establishments in the Soviet Union Ministries established in 1953 Nuclear technology in the Soviet Union
The Ministry of Medium Machine-Building (, also known as Sredmash) was a government ministry of the Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
which supervised the Soviet nuclear industry
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, including production of nuclear warhead
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s.
History
The ministry was established on the basis of the First Chief Directorate (nuclear industry) and the Third Chief Directorate (development in the area controlled missiles, aircraft, rockets and long range missiles) of theCouncil of Ministers of the USSR
The Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( rus, Совет министров СССР, r=Sovet Ministrov SSSR, p=sɐˈvʲet mʲɪˈnʲistrəf ˌɛsˌɛsˌɛsˈɛr), sometimes abbreviated as Sovmin or referred to as the ...
as well as the Central Board of Industrial Building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR
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(''Главпромстрой МВД'') charged with construction of nuclear installations, all of which were in operation since September 1942.
The Ministry of Medium Machine Building was established by a Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
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on 26 June 1953. The Central Intelligence Agency
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initially believed that the ministry oversaw the war industry. On September 11, 1989, after merging with the Ministry of Atomic Energy, the Ministry of Medium Machine Building was renamed the Ministry of Atomic Energy and Industry of the USSR (''Министерство атомной энергетики и промышленности СССР'').
List of ministers
''Source'': * Vyacheslav Malyshev (17.7.1953 - 28.2.1955) *Avraami Zavenyagin
Avraamiy Pavlovich Zavenyagin (Russian:Авраамий Завенягин; 1 May 1901 – 31 December 1956), was Soviet politician and a security service operative who was a senior program manager in the Soviet program of nuclear weapons in the ...
(28.2.1955 - 21.1.1956)
* Nikolai Smelyakov
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(21.1.1956 - 10.5.1957) (acting)
* Mikhail Pervukhin
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(10.5.1957 - 24.7.1957)
* Efim Slavsky (24.7.1957 - 22.11.1986)
* Lev Ryabev
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(22.11.1986 - 17.7.1989)
* Oleg Shishkin (17.7.1989 - 25.12.1991)
See also
*Ministry of General Machine Building
The Ministry of General Machine-Building (; MOM), also known as ''Minobshchemash'', was a government ministry of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1957 and from 1965 to 1991. The ministry supervised design bureaus that managed the research, dev ...
, Soviet ministry of space industry
References
External links
Age of sredmash
* {{Departments of the USSR Nuclear weapons program of the Soviet Union 1953 establishments in the Soviet Union Ministries established in 1953 Nuclear technology in the Soviet Union