Production association () was a form of the organization of industry in the
Soviet Union
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. According to the ''
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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'', it is "a single specialized production and economic complex, which includes factories, plants, research, design, technological, and other organizations that have industrial relations with each other and centralized auxiliary and service production. The production units that make up the association are not separate legal entities". As a rule, it is managed by the management of its core enterprise, with the board of directors of its major enterprises serving as an advisory body.
[''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'', article "Производственное объединение" ]
Similar associations existed in other
countries under Soviet influence, known under other terms, such as "
Kombinat" in Poland and East Germany.
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Post-Soviet times
After the regaining of the independence of Lithuania
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in 1991, all production associations created in Lithuanian SSR
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were dissolved into several businesses, reorganized, or discontinued. Notable ones include toy manufacturer Neringa (dissolved), computer and computer components manufacturer (discontinued in 1991), (best known in the former Soviet Union for its stereo tape recorders; its main enterprise went bankrupt in 1993, other smaller parts were privatized, and their fates varied.„Elfos“ gamykla
/ref>), and fertilizer producer Azotas (its major plant was privatized in 1994 and in its place the joint-stock company Achema
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was created).
The term was preserved in the names of a number of enterprises in modern Russia and some post-Soviet states
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, but it does not have any legal meaning.
See also
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* Scientific production association
References
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Economy of the Soviet Union
Types of business entity
Companies of the Soviet Union