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 transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

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 in the Soviet Union. The People's Commissariat of Machine Tool Building, later the Ministry of ...

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

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in 1946, the People's Commissariat of Heavy Machine Building became the Ministry of Heavy Machine Building.

List of ministers

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Vyacheslav Malyshev Viacheslav Aleksandrovich Malyshev (Russian: Вячеслав Александрович Малышев) (3 December 1902 — 20 February 1957) was a Soviet statesman who was one of the leading figures of Soviet industry during the 1940s and 1 ...

(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 Vladimir Makarovich Velichko (russian: Владимир Макарович Величко; Mozhayskoye Novousmanskogo, 23 April 1937) is a Soviet official and entrepreneur appointed as the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers i ...

(17.7.1989 - 14.1.1991)

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