The Ministry of Communications Equipment Industry (MPSS; russian: Министерство промышленности средств связи СССР) was a
government ministry
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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
By
ukase
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of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of 28 June 1946, the
Ministry of Electrical Industry The Ministry of the Electrical Industry (russian: Министерство электропромышленности СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union.
History
The Ministry of Electrical Industry USSR originated from the Main ...
was divided into the Ministry of Electrical Industry and the Ministry of Communications Equipment Industry. The Ministry of Communications Equipment Industry was given jurisdiction over enterprises and organizations producing radar, radio engineering, and telephone and telegraph equipment, vacuum tubes, storage batteries, battery cells and carbon electrical products.
The ministry was re-established on 30 March 1974; had overall responsibility for production of communication equipment (including radio and television, telegraph and telephone, and satellite communications equipment), and for overall construction of a country-wide unified communications network.
List of ministers
''Source'':
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Erien Pervyshin (11.4.1974 - 17.7.1989)
References
{{Departments of the USSR