Ministry of the Automotive Industry

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 [ru] (2.10.1965–28.6.1975)
Viktor Poljakov (17.7.1975–18.10.1986)
Nikolai Pugin (26.10.1986–2.10.1988)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "The Soviet Motor Vehicle Industry: Improving Quality and Productivity" (PDF). CIA. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 19, 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
^ "Аналитическая и консалтинговая компания ОАО "АСМ-холдинг"". Asm-holding.ru. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
^ "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.