People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry explained

The People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry (Narkomtiazhprom; Russian: Народный комиссариат тяжёлой промышленности СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

Brief overview

The People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry, known by the acronym NKTP, was founded in 1932 out of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy and was responsible for all heavy industrial goods, including mining, machinery and defense goods.^[1]

The defense industry assets were separated in December 1936, with the creation of the People's Commissariat of the Defense Industry, and in August 1937 there was set up the People's Commissariat for Mechanical Engineering.^[2] In early 1939 the NKTP was divided into six separate commissariats.^[2]

Succeeding commissariats

• People's Commissariat of the Defense Industry
• People's Commissariat for Mechanical Engineering
• People's Commissariat of Fuel Industry
• People's Commissariat of Ferrous Metallurgy
• People's Commissariat of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy
• People's Commissariat of Power Plants and Power Generating Industry
• People's Commissariat of Chemical Industry
• People's Commissariat of Construction Materials Industry

List of people's commissars (ministers)

Source:^{[3] [4]}

• Sergo Ordzhonikidze (5.1.1932 – 25.2.1937)
• Valery Mezhlauk (25.2.1937 – 23.8.1937)
• Lazar Kaganovich (23.8.1937 – 24.1.1939)

Research institutes

Organisations they took responsibility for include:

• Leningrad Military Mechanical Institute
• Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology
• Reactive Scientific Research Institute

See also

• Narkomtiazhprom Building

Notes and References

1. Book: Gregory. Paul R.. The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives. 2004. Cambridge University Press. 9780521533676. 154. en.
2. Book: Lewis. Robert A.. Science and Industrialization in the U.S.S.R.. 2016. Springer. 9781349037865. 61–65. en.
3. 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.
4. 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.