Ministry of Atomic Energy explained

The Ministry of Atomic Energy (Minatom; Russian: Министерство атомной энергетики СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union.

Created soon after the Chernobyl disaster, the ministry assumed responsibility for all nuclear energy in the USSR while the control of individual atomic stations remained with the State Committee for the Utilization of Atomic Energy (GKAE).^[1]

List of ministers

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(9 September 1986 - 17 July 1989)
Vitaliy Konovalov (17 July 1989 - 24 August 1991)

Notes and References

Book: Directory of Soviet officials. National organizations. February 1989. National Foreign Assessment Center. 19 November 2017.
Web site: Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1917-1964. 28 November 2017. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20171128144410/http://www.kolumbus.fi/taglarsson/dokumentit/sov.htm. 28 November 2017.
Web site: Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1964-1991. 28 November 2017. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20171128142837/http://www.kolumbus.fi/taglarsson/dokumentit/sov1.htm. 28 November 2017.