The People’s Commissariat of Mortar Armament (russian: Народный комиссариат миномётного вооружения СССР) was one of the central offices 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 ...

, the equivalent of a

Ministry Ministry may refer to: Government * Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister * Ministry (government department), a department of a government Religion * Christian ...

, which oversaw the production of mortar weapons. It was created on November 26, 1941 as the

People's Commissariat of General Machine-Building Industry People's, branded as ''People's Viennaline'' until May 2018, and legally ''Altenrhein Luftfahrt GmbH'', is an Austrian airline headquartered in Vienna. It operates scheduled and charter passenger flights mainly from its base at St. Gallen-Alten ...

of the USSR (''Наркомат общего машиностроения СССР''). On February 17, 1946 it became the

People's Commissariat of Machine Industry and Tooling 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 ...

of the USSR (''Наркомат машиностроения и приборостроения СССР'').

Headquarters

The headquarters were in the Chludov building in Moscow at Teatralniy Proezd (''Театральный проезд''). The phone book does not indicate the address of the Ministry.

List of ministers

''Source'': *

Pjotr Parshin Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived directly from Greek , ''Petros'' (an invented, masculine form of Greek ''petra,'' the word for "rock" or "stone"), which itself was a translation of Aramaic ''Kefa'' ("stone, rock"), the new na ...

(20.11.1941 - 17.2.1946)

References

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