The Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy (Minchermet; russian: Министерство чёрной металлургии СССР) had been a

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in the

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History

The

all-union commissariat The Ministries of the Soviet Union (russian: Министерства СССР) were the government ministries of the Soviet Union. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 the previous bureaucratic apparatus of bourgeois ministers was replaced by Pe ...

of Ferrous Metallurgy was established on 24 January 1939 by ukase of the Presidium, Supreme Soviet USSR, at which time the All-Union

People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry The People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry (Narkomtiazhprom; russian: Народный комиссариат тяжёлой промышленности СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union in 1930s. Brief overview The People' ...

was subdivided into six separate commissariats. The Commissariat of Ferrous Metallurgy was to have under its jurisdiction all plants of the metallurgical industry, plants for high-quality steel and ferroalloys, pipe-rolling and pipe-casting plants, mining enterprises, enterprises of the refractories industry, coke and chemical byproducts plants, and enterprises for the processing and sale of ferrous metal scrap. By decree of the Supreme Soviet USSR dated 15 March 1946, all people's commissariats were transformed into ministries. These included the Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy and the

Ministry of Nonferrous Metallurgy The Ministry of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy (Mintsvetmet; russian: Министерство цветной металлургии СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union. History The All-Union People's Commissariat of Non-ferrous Metall ...

. Both of these ministries were united on 29 July 1948, when the

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was formed by ukase of the Presidium, Supreme Soviet USSR. On 28 December 1950, the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry USSR was again divided into the Ministries of Ferrous Metallurgy and Nonferrous Metallurgy.

Ivan Fedorovich Tevosyan Ivan Fyodorovich (Hovhannes Tevadrosovich) Tevosian (russian: Иван Федорович (Тевадросович) Тевосян, hy, Հովհաննես Թևատրոսի Թևոսյան 1902, Shushi – 1958, Moscow) was a Soviet politician of A ...

was appointed Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy USSR on 28 December 1950. He had held the same position before the merger of the two ministries on 29 July 1948.

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was appointed First Deputy Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy on 28 December 1950. He had been Minister of Metallurgical Industry from July 1949 to December 1950.

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(24.1.1939 - 17.4.1940) *

Ivan Tervosyan Ivan Fyodorovich (Hovhannes Tevadrosovich) Tevosian (russian: Иван Федорович (Тевадросович) Тевосян, hy, Հովհաննես Թևատրոսի Թևոսյան 1902, Shushi – 1958, Moscow) was a Soviet politician of A ...

(17.4.1940 - 29.7.1948; 28.12.1950 - 6.3.1953) *

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(8.2.1954 - 27.4.1954) * Aleksandr Sherementjev (15.11.1954 - 10.5.1957) * Ivan Kazanetz (2.10.1965 - 26.7.1974)

References

Ferrous Metallurgy Ferrous metallurgy is the metallurgy of iron and its alloys. The earliest surviving prehistoric iron artifacts, from the 4th millennium BC in Egypt, were made from meteoritic iron-nickel. It is not known when or where the smelting of iron from ...

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