The Military-Industrial Commission of the USSR or VPK (russian: военно-промышленная комиссия) commission under the Soviet Council of Ministers from 1957 to 1991. The VPK was a Commission of the Presidium of the
Council of Ministers
A council is a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions. A council may function as a legislature, especially at a town, city or county/shire level, but most legislative bodies at the state/provincial or natio ...
, and a deputy chairman of the Council headed it. The Soviet VPK's primary function was to facilitate plan fulfillment by easing bottlenecks, enforcing inter-ministerial cooperation, and overseeing the availability of resources.
History
The VPK was officially formed in December 1957.
[Chertok, ''Rockets and People, Volume III: Hot Days of the Cold War'', p2]
Chairmen of the VPK
*1957-63:
Dmitriy Ustinov (russian: Дми́трий Усти́нов)
*1963-85:
Leonid Smirnov (russian: Леонид Смирнов)
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*1985-91: Yuri Maslyukov (russian: Юрий Маслюков)
See also
* People's Commissariat of Defence Industry of the USSR
* People's Commissariat of Arms of the USSR
*Military-Industrial Commission of Russia
The Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation () was established by a presidential decree in March 2006. According to the decree, it is a permanently functioning body with vast responsibilities for supervising the distribution and ...
Footnotes
References
*''Rockets and People, Volume III: Hot Days of the Cold War'', by Boris Evseevich Chertok, pub Government Printing Office, 2005, .
*'' The Collapse of the Soviet Military'', by General William E. Odom
William Eldridge Odom (June 23, 1932 – May 30, 2008) was a United States Army lieutenant general who served as Director of the National Security Agency under President Ronald Reagan, which culminated a 31-year career in military intelligence, ma ...
, pub Yale University Press, 1998, {{ISBN, 0-300-07469-7.
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