Ministry of General Machine-Building

The Ministry of General Machine-Building (Russian: Министерство общего машиностроения СССР) was a government ministry of the Soviet Union which supervised the Soviet space program.

History[edit]

The Ministry of General Machine-Building was established by the provisions of the CPSU Central Committee and USSR Council of Ministers no. 126–47 on 2 March 1965. At its beginning the ministry consisted of 55 organizational units - companies, firms, and research institutes; in 1966 there were 134, while in 1991, there were 160.

The ministry served as one of the primary organizations overseeing the Soviet space program. However, the executive architecture of the program was multi-centered; design bureaus and councils of designers had the most say, rather the political leadership. The creation of a central agency after the reorganization of the Soviet Union into the Russian Federation was therefore a new development. The Russian Space Agency^{[note 1]} was formed as the successor to the Ministry of General Machine-Building on 25 February 1992, by a decree of President Yeltsin. Yuri Koptev, who had previously worked with designing Mars landers at NPO Lavochkin, became the agency's first director.^[1]^[2]

List of ministers[edit]

The Ministry of General Machine-building had four ministers during its existence:^[3]^[4]

Sergey Afanasyev (2 March 1965 – 8 April 1983)
Oleg Baklanov (8 April 1983 – 26 March 1988)
Vitaly Doguzhiev (26 March 1988 – 17 July 1989)
Oleg Shushkin (17 July 1989 – 24 August 1991)

Notes[edit]

^ Russian: Российское космическое агентство, Rossiyskoye kosmicheskoye agentstvo, or RKA (Russian: РКА).

References[edit]

^ Harvey, Brian (2007). "The design bureaus". The Rebirth of the Russian Space Program (1st ed.). Germany: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-71354-0.
^ "25 февраля 1992 года образовано Российское космическое агентство, в настоящее время – Федеральное космическое агентство (Роскосмос)". Archived from the original on 20 October 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
^ "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1917-1964". Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
^ "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1964-1991". Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.

[1] Russian: Российское космическое агентство, Rossiyskoye kosmicheskoye agentstvo, or RKA (Russian: РКА).

[harvey-2] Harvey, Brian (2007). "The design bureaus". The Rebirth of the Russian Space Program (1st ed.). Germany: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-71354-0.

[:0-3] "25 февраля 1992 года образовано Российское космическое агентство, в настоящее время – Федеральное космическое агентство (Роскосмос)". Archived from the original on 20 October 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2020.

[4] "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1917-1964". Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.

[5] "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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