Military-Industrial Commission of the USSR
The Military-Industrial Commission of the USSR or VPK (Russian: военно-промышленная комиссия) served as a central management body for the Soviet defence industry from 1957 to 1991. The VPK was a Commission of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers, and a deputy chairman of the Council headed it. The Soviet VPK's primary function was to facilitate plan fulfillment by easing bottlenecks, enforcing inter-ministerial cooperation, and overseeing the availability of resources.[1]
History
The VPK was officially formed in December 1957.[2]
Chairmen of the VPK
- 1957-63 Dmitri Feodorovich Ustinov (Russian: Усти́нов, Дми́трий Фёдорович).[3]
- 1963-85 Leonid Vasil’evich Smirnov (Russian: Смирнов, Леонид Васильевич).[4]
- 1985-91 Yuri Dmitriyevich Maslyukov (Russian: Маслюков, Юрий Дмитриевич).
See also
- People's Commissariat of Defence Industry of the USSR (A preceding organization that was broken up in 1939)
- People's Commissariat of Arms of the USSR
Footnotes
- ↑ Odom, The Collapse of the Soviet Military, p20.
- ↑ Chertok, Rockets and People, Volume III: Hot Days of the Cold War, p2
- ↑ Encyclopedia Astronautica, Ustinov
- ↑ Encyclopedia Astronautica, Smirnov
References
- Rockets and People, Volume III: Hot Days of the Cold War, by Boris Evseevich Chertok, pub Government Printing Office, 2005, ISBN 0-16-081733-1.
- The Collapse of the Soviet Military, by General William E. Odom, pub Yale University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-300-07469-7.
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