Ministry of the Maritime Fleet (Soviet Union)

The Ministry of the Maritime Fleet (Minmorflot; Russian: Министерство морского флота СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union.

Merchant Maritime Fleet of the USSR has abbreviation Morflot (English: Морфлот). All Soviet merchant fleet organizations and establishments obey to Ministry of the Maritime Fleet. It is why Ministry of the Maritime Fleet has abbreviation Mimmorflot (English: Минморфлот). Population of the Soviet Union and Soviet press often used abovementioned abbreviations. Populations and press of post-Soviet countries still use this abbreviations too.

Morflot of the USSR has history from 1922 to 1991 as Soviet Union was declared on December 29, 1922 and was collapsed in 1991. But Minforflot has more short history.

History

Until 25 May 1939, functions of the Ministry of Maritime Fleet USSR were carried out by the People's Commissariat of Water Transport of the USSR, which was responsible for both maritime and river fleets of the USSR.[1]

The structure of the People's Commissariat of Maritime Fleet USSR as a separate people's commissariat was confirmed by a decree of the Council of Ministers USSR on 25 May 1939. On 15 March 1946, the People's Commissariat of Maritime Fleet USSR was changed to the Ministry of Maritime Fleet USSR by decree of the Supreme Soviet, at the time that all people's commissariats were changed to ministries.[1]

March 15, 1953 Minmorflot was united with Ministry of River Fleet of the USSR in one Ministry: Ministry of Maritime and River Fleet of the USSR.

As per Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR dated August 25, 1954,[2] The Ministry of Maritime and River Fleet of the USSR was re-established on August 25, 1954, when the Ministry of Maritime Fleet and Ministry of River Fleet of the USSR was divided again.

Minmorflot was liquidated on December 26, 1991 in connection with the termination of the existence of the USSR.

Subordinate organizations and establishments

Ministry of the Maritime Fleet of the USSR is the head organization of Morflot. The main office of Ministry of the Maritime Fleet of the USSR was in Moscow.

Following subordinate establishments obeyed to Minmorflot in 1970–1991 years, their emblems mentioned on the picture also:

  1. Sovfraht
  2. Register of the USSR, today Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
  3. МРФ. It is like Russian abbreviation of Maritime Container Service (MCS).
  4. Merchant Maritime Transport of the USSR which had shortage TMT (Russian: Торговый морской транспорт). All Merchant Maritime divided to shipping companies and Sea routes as per down mentioned list of subordinate organizations.

Following subordinate organizations and establishments obeyed to Minmorflot in 1960–1991 years, their emblems mentioned on the picture also:

  1. Baltic Sea Shipping Company, main office was in Leningrad
  2. Estonian Shipping Company, main office was in Tallinn
  3. Latvian Shipping Company, main office in Riga
  4. Lituanian Shipping Company, main office in Klaypeda
  5. Black Sea Shipping Company, main office was in Odessa
  6. Azov Shipping Company, main office was in Mariupol
  7. Novorossiysk Shipping Company, main office was in Novorossiysk
  8. Georgian Shipping Company, main office was in Batumi
  9. Soviet Dunaj Shipping Company or Dunaj-Sea Shipping Company, main office was in Izmail
  10. Far East Shipping Company, main office was in Vladivostok
  11. PRISCO is abbreviation of Primorie (Seaside) Shipping Company, main office in Nahodka
  12. Sakhalin Shipping Company, main office was in Kholmsk
  13. Kamchatska Shipping Company, main office was in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
  14. Murmansk Shipping Company, main office in Murmansk
  15. Sevmorput (Russian: Севморпуть), the organisation to control the navigation with the Arctic Northeast Passage Sea rote.
  16. SVUMF (Russian: СВУМФ), it is abbreviation of the North-Eastern Directorate of the Maritime Fleet.
  17. Kaspian Shipping Company, main office in Baku
  18. Middle-Asian Shipping company (Aral Sea), main office in

Each Soviet sea ports was a part of the closest shipping company.

List of Ministers

Ministers of Minmorflot from March 1946 to March 1953:

Name
Date of taking office
Date of removal from office
Pyotr Petrovich Shirshov
(1905—1953)
19 March 1946
30 March 1948
Alexander Alexandrovich Afanasyev
(1903—1991)
30 March 1948
26 April 1948
Acting minicter
Nikolai Vasilevich Novikov
(1909—1971)
26 April 1948
23 October 1948
Nikolai Vasilevich Novikov
(1909—1971)
23 October 1948
15 March 1953

Ministers of Minmorflot from August, 1954 to December, 1991:

Name
Date of taking office
Date of removal from office
Viktor Georgievich Bakaev
(1902—1987)
28 August 1954
14 January 1970
Timofey Borisovich Guzhenko
(1918—2008)
14 January 1970
27 September 1986
Yuri Mikhailovich Volmer
(born in 1933)
24 October 1986
28 August 1991[3]
Acting minister
Yuri Mikhailovich Volmer
(born in 1933)
28 August 1991[3]
26 November 1991[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Organization Of The Ministry of the Maritime Fleet USSR" (PDF). CIA. Retrieved 18 November 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ↑ Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR dated August 25, 1954 on the formation of all-Union Ministries of Maritime and River Fleets of the USSR on August 25, 1954, when the Ministry of Maritime Fleet and Ministry of River Fleet of the USSR were divided. (Russian: Указ Президиума ВС СССР от 25.08.1954 об образовании общесоюзных Министерств морского и речного флота СССР 25 августа 1954 года при разделении Министерства морского и речного флота СССР).
  3. 1 2 Постановление Верховного Совета СССР от 28 августа 1991 г. № 2366-I «Об освобождении Павлова В. С. от обязанностей Премьер-министра СССР». Согласно части 2 статьи 13 Закона СССР «О Кабинете Министров СССР» отставка Премьер-министра влекла за собой отставку Кабинета Министров в полном составе. Согласно части 3 статьи 13 Закона СССР «О Кабинете Министров СССР» члены правительства (включая, Вольмера и Панюкова) продолжили работать в ранге и. о.
  4. ↑ Указ Президента СССР от 26 ноября 1991 г. N УП-2884 "О членах бывшего Кабинета Министров СССР"


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