Ministry of the Automotive Industry (Soviet Union)

A reward for automobile industry workers issued by MinAutoProm for "Excellence at the workplace".

The Ministry of the Automotive Industry (Minavtoprom; Russian: Министерство автомобильной промышленности СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union.

The Ministry of the Automotive industry operated about 300 plants and numerous research and development organizations. Most key facilities belonged to a production association, and most associations consisted of a lead final assembly plant and numerous satellite plants. Eight production associations produced nearly all trucks and about one-half of all buses; four produced almost all Soviet passenger cars. In the mid-1980s the ministry produced about 250 truck, 60 automobile, and 35 bus models and modifications and 50 types of trailers and attachments. The ministry also maintained its own internal R&D base for vehicle design and production technology development.[1]

History

Before 1965 the automotive industry was subordinate to several different administrative organizations including: the Central Administration of State Automotive Plants (1922-1941); the People's Commissariat for Medium Machine Building (1941-1945); the Ministry of the Automobile industry (1945-1947); the Ministry of the Automobile and Tractor Industry (1947-1953); the Ministry of Machine Building (1953-1954); and the Ministry of the Automobile Industry (1955-1957). In 1957 most industrial ministries were abolished and replaced with regional economic councils. In 1965 the present ministerial structure was introduced.[1]

Production associations were introduced in the mid-1960s to increase manufacturing efficiency through a unified administrative structure that usually brings together in a single enterprise a major manufacturer and its principal suppliers. This structure is supposed to provide coordinated production programs among cooperating plants, more efficient use of resources, and more rapid assimilation of technological advances.[1]

In November 1991 the Ministry became the Open Joint-Stock Company Avtoselkhozmash Holding.[2]

List of ministers

Source:[3][4]

  • Stepan Akopov (17.2.1946 - 18.4.1950)
  • Ivan Khlamov (18.4.1950 - 15.3.1953)
  • Stepan Akopov (19.4.1954 - 23.7.1955)
  • G. Strokin (23.7.1955 - 10.5.1957)
  • Aleksandr Tarasov (2.10.1965 - 28.6.1975)
  • Viktor Poljakov (17.7.1975 - 18.10.1986)
  • Nikolai Pugin (26.10.1986 - 2.10.1988)

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "The Soviet Motor Vehicle Industry: Improving Quality and Productivity" (PDF). CIA. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "Аналитическая и консалтинговая компания ОАО "АСМ-холдинг"". Asm-holding.ru. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1917-1964". Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1964-1991". Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
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