The Ministry of Heavy Machine Building (Mintyazhmash; russian: Министерство тяжёлого машиностроения СССР) was a
government ministry
Ministry or department (also less commonly used secretariat, office, or directorate) are designations used by first-level executive bodies in the machinery of governments that manage a specific sector of public administration." Энцикло ...
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, ...
.
History
The statute of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Machine Building was confirmed by a decree of the
Council of People's Commissars
The Councils of People's Commissars (SNK; russian: Совет народных комиссаров (СНК), ''Sovet narodnykh kommissarov''), commonly known as the ''Sovnarkom'' (Совнарком), were the highest executive authorities of ...
on 23 April 1939.
On 5 June 1941, when the
Ministry of Machine Tool and Tool Building Industry The Ministry of Machine Tool Building (Minstankoprom; russian: Министерство станкостроения СССР) was a government ministry
Ministry or department (also less commonly used secretariat, office, or directorate) are des ...
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
Council of Ministers in 1946, the People's Commissariat of Heavy Machine Building became the Ministry of Heavy Machine Building.
List of ministers
''Source'':
*
Vyacheslav Malyshev (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 (17.7.1989 - 14.1.1991)
References
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