Ministry of Heavy Machine Building (Soviet Union)

The Ministry of Heavy Machine Building (Mintyazhmash; Russian: Министерство тяжёлого машиностроения СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union.

History

The statute of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Machine Building was confirmed by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars on 23 April 1939.^[1] On 5 June 1941, when the Ministry of Machine Tool and Tool Building Industry was organized, it was given jurisdiction over a number of main administrations formerly belonging to the People's Commissariat of Heavy Machine Building.^[1]

With the reorganization of the Council of People's Commissars into the Council of Ministers in 1946, the People's Commissariat of Heavy Machine Building became the Ministry of Heavy Machine Building.^[1]

List of ministers

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• Vyacheslav Malyshev (19.6.1939 - 17.4.1940)
• Aleksandr Yefremov (17.4.1940 - 6.6.1941)
• Nikolai Kazakov (6.6.1941 - 6.3.1953; 19.4.1954 - 18.7.1955)
• Konstantin Petukhov (18.7.1955 - 10.5.1957)
• Vladimir Zhigalin (2.10.1965 - 8.4.1982)
• Sergei Afanasiev (8.4.1982 - 20.7.1987)
• Vladimir Velichko (17.7.1989 - 14.1.1991)