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People's Commissariat A People's Commissariat (russian: народный комиссариат; Narkomat) was a structure in the Soviet state (in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, in other union and autonomous republics, in the Soviet Union) from 1917– ...

for Water Transport (, ''Narodnyy Komissariat Vodnovo Transporta''), usually abbreviated ("Narkomvodtrans") or ("Narkomvod") and also sometimes NKVT, was the

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Ministry for Water Transportation. It was responsible, amongst other things, for running the Soviet merchant marine fleet.

History

Narkomvod was established on 30 January 1931, in the middle of a re-evaluation of Soviet policy about the railways and the splitting off the People's Commissariat of Transportation and as part of an overall government reorganization. The first people's commissar for Narkomvod was Nikolay Mikhaylovich Ianson, who had formerly been a people's commissar in the

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. By April 1931, Narkomvod had five directorates, for operations in the

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Seas. Ianson resigned on 13 March 1934, in order to become the deputy chief of

Glavsevmorput The Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route (russian: Главное Управление Северного Морского Пути , translit=Glavnoe upravlenie Severnogo morskogo puti), also known as Glavsevmorput or GUSMP (russian: ГУ� ...

. He was replaced by Nikolay Pakhomov. On April 9, 1939 the People's Commissariat was abolished and split into the

People's Commissariat of River Fleet People's, branded as ''People's Viennaline'' until May 2018, and legally ''Altenrhein Luftfahrt Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, GmbH'', is an Austrian airline headquartered in Vienna. It operates scheduled and charter passenger flights ma ...

and the

People's Commissariat of Marine Fleet People's, branded as ''People's Viennaline'' until May 2018, and legally ''Altenrhein Luftfahrt Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, GmbH'', is an Austrian airline headquartered in Vienna. It operates scheduled and charter passenger flights ma ...

Commissars

The head of the People's Commissariat was a People's Commissar. The following People's Commissars of Water Transport were appointed: * 1931–1934 Nikolay Mikhaylovich Ianson (Nikolai Janson, Nikolay Yanson), demoted on March 13, 1934, arrested in 1937, tried and shot shortly thereafter. * 1934–1938 Nikolay Ivanovich Pakhomov, fired on April 8, 1938, arrested on the next day, tried and shot shortly thereafter. * 1938–1939 Nikolay Ivanovich Yezhov, also serving as the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs until December 9, 1938. On 9 April 1939 the People's Commissariat for Water Transport was abolished. Yezhov was arrested the following day, then tried and shot shortly thereafter.

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