The People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry (Narkomtiazhprom; ) was a
government ministry
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in the
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
in the 1930s. which operated the electric power system in the Soviet Union was subordinated to the commissariat.
Brief overview
The People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry, known by the acronym NKTP, was founded in 1932 out of the
Supreme Soviet of the National Economy
Supreme Soviet of the National Economy, Superior Soviet of the People's Economy, (Высший совет народного хозяйства, ВСНХ, ''Vysshiy sovet narodnogo khozyaystva'', VSNKh) was the superior state institution for mana ...
and was responsible for all
heavy industrial goods, including mining, machinery and defense goods.
The defense industry assets were separated in December 1936, with the creation of the
People's Commissariat of the Defense Industry, and in August 1937 there was set up the People's Commissariat for Mechanical Engineering.
In early 1939 the NKTP was divided into six separate commissariats.
Succeeding commissariats
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People's Commissariat of the Defense Industry
* People's Commissariat for Mechanical Engineering
* People's Commissariat of Fuel Industry
* People's Commissariat of Ferrous Metallurgy
* People's Commissariat of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy
* People's Commissariat of Power Plants and Power Generating Industry
* People's Commissariat of Chemical Industry
* People's Commissariat of Construction Materials Industry
List of people's commissars (ministers)
''Source'':
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Sergo Ordzhonikidze (5.1.1932 – 25.2.1937)
*
Valery Mezhlauk (25.2.1937 – 23.8.1937)
*
Lazar Kaganovich
Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (; – 25 July 1991) was a Soviet politician and one of Joseph Stalin's closest associates.
Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, Kaganovich worked as a shoemaker and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ...
(23.8.1937 – 24.1.1939)
Research institutes
Organisations they took responsibility for include:
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Leningrad Military Mechanical Institute
*
Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology
*
Reactive Scientific Research Institute
See also
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Narkomtiazhprom Building
References
{{Departments of the USSR
Supreme Soviet of the National Economy
1932 establishments in the Soviet Union