Ministry of General Machine Building

Soviet government ministry overseeing spaceflight

The Ministry of General Machine Building of the USSR (Russian: Министерство общего машиностроения СССР) was a government ministry of the Soviet Union.

History

The Ministry of General Machine Building was established by the provisions of the CPSU Central Committee and USSR Council of Ministers no. 126–47 on 2 March 1965, who oversaw all issues related to space exploration in the USSR.

At the beginning the ministry consisted of 55 organizational units - companies, firms and research institutes: in 1966 there were 134, in 1991, 160.

On September 17, 1991, the Ministry was wound up, passing on their duties to the newly established Federal Space Agency Roskosmos (Федеральное космическое агентство - Роскосмос).

List of ministers

Source:[1][2]

  • Sergey Afanasyev (2 March 1965 – 8 April 1983)
  • Oleg Baklanov (8 April 1983 – 26 March 1988)
  • Vitaly Doguzhiev (26 March 1988 – 17 July 1989)
  • Oleg Shushkin (17 July 1989 – 24 December 1991)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1917-1964". Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1964-1991". Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  • v
  • t
  • e
All-UnionMinistries
(list)
Regional ministries
  • Construction in the Eastern Regions
  • Construction in the Far East and Transbaikal Regions
  • Construction in the Northern and Western Regions
  • Construction in the Southern Regions
  • Construction in the Urals and West Siberian Regions
State Committees
and commissions