Ministry of Instrumentation, Automation and Control Systems explained

The Ministry of Instrument-Making, Automation Devices and Control Systems (Minpribor; Russian: Министерство приборостроения, средств автоматизации и систем управления) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union.

Established in 1959 as State Committee for Automation and Machine Building; it assumed its ministerial title in 1965; oversees development and integration into industry of automated control systems.^[1] The ministry developed and manufactured systems for industrial control, planning and management.^[2]

List of ministers

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Konstantin Rudnev (2.10.1965 - 19.4.1979)
Anatoli Kostousov (26.7.1974 - 19.4.1979)
Konstantin Rudnev (19.4.1979 - 1.7.1980)
Mikhail Shkabardnya (10.9.1980 - 17.7.1989)

Notes and References

Book: Directory of Soviet officials. National organizations. February 1989. National Foreign Assessment Center. 19 November 2017.
Book: Cortada. James W.. The Digital Flood: The Diffusion of Information Technology Across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. 2012. OUP USA. 9780199921553. 259. en.
Web site: Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1917-1964. 28 November 2017. live. 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.