The People's Commissariat of Munitions of the USSR ( - НКБ), was one of the central ministries of the
Soviet Government
The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was the executive and administrative organ of the highest body of state authority, the All-Union Supreme Soviet. It was formed on 30 December 1922 and abolished on 26 December 199 ...
, who oversaw production of the armaments industry, mainly ammunition and explosives.
The seat was located in Moscow at Kirov St. (''ул. Кирова'') 29 (now of Miasnickaya St. - ''Мясницкая'').
History
On 11 January 1939 the
People's Commissariat of Defence Industry of the USSR
The Ministry of Defense Industry (Minoboronprom; ) was a Government of the Soviet Union, government Ministries of the Soviet Union, ministry in the Soviet Union, established 8 December 1936.
History
It was originally established on 8 December 1936 ...
(''Народный комиссариат оборонной промышленности'') was divided into several departments, among which was the People's Commissariat of Munitions (shortened to NKB in Russian).
It oversaw the work of 53 production plants and 12 design offices, five construction companies, 5 universities and 11 technical schools. In 1939 it employed 337,141 workers.
On 7 January 1946 the commissariat was renamed
People's Commissariat of Agricultural Engineering of the USSR (''Наркомат сельскохозяйственного машиностроения CCCP''), before being transformed into a Ministry later that year.
Ministers
''Source'':
* (11.1.1939 - 8.3.1941)
* (8.3.1941 - 16.2.1942)
*
Boris Vannikov
Boris Lvovich Vannikov (; 26 August 1897 – 22 February 1962), was a Soviet politician and a political commissar of Azerbaijani Jewish origin who was one of the senior program managers in the Soviet program of nuclear weapons.
Biography
Bor ...
(16.2.1942 - 7.1.1946)
See also
*
OKB → experimental design bureau (''Опытное конструкторское бюро'' - ОКБ)
References
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Munitions
Ammunition, also known as ammo, is the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon or weapon system. The term includes both expendable weapons (e.g., bombs, missiles, grenades, land mines), and the component parts of ...
1939 establishments in the Soviet Union
1946 disestablishments in the Soviet Union
Defence industry of the Soviet Union
Military history of the Soviet Union during World War II