Silayev's Government Explained

Cabinet Name:Committee for operative management of national economy
Cabinet Type:Government
Cabinet Number:29th
Jurisdiction:the Soviet Union
Flag:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg
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Date Dissolved: or
Government Head:Ivan Silayev
State Head:Mikhail Gorbachev
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Predecessor:Pavlov
Successor:none

Committee for operative management of national economy of the Soviet Union (Russian: Комитет по оперативному управлению народным хозяйством|Komitet po operativnomu upravleniyu narodnym khozyaistvom) was the official name for the provisional office of state administration of the Soviet Union with government functions following dismissal of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Soviet Union on 28 August 1991.[1] [2]

The former government of Valentin Pavlov was dissolved following the failed August Coup against Mikhail Gorbachev and his supporters. Ivan Silayev, who had been appointed chairman of the newly formed committee on 24 August with the task of finding a new government, was instead granted on 28 August the authority of the dissolved cabinet of ministers and de facto the office of the Premier. The dissolution of the committee had been declared by Russian President Boris Yeltsin through presidential decree on 19 December[3] (without confirmation by Soviet President Gorbachev),[4] the deputy chairs retired on that day, but the chair and ministers continued to work until the resignation of President Gorbachev on 25 December.

On 5 September 1991 the Inter-Republican Economic Committee of the USSR[5] (headed by Silayev also) was established as an additional, more important and powerful body and was on 14 November transformed into the Interstate Economic Committee of the Economic Community, a body which sought to become an international body tasked with coordinating the economies of the remaining and former Soviet republics. Yet, the national Soviet Committee for operative management continued to work alongside the Inter-Republican/Interstate Committee and function as the nation's government until the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Ministries

MinistryMinisterPeriod
Chairman of the CommitteeIvan Silayev24 August – 25 December 1991
Deputy ChairmenArkady Volsky24 August – 19 December 1991
Yury Luzhkov24 August – 29 October 1991
Grigory Yavlinsky24 August – 19 December 1991
Minister of FinanceVladimir Rayevsky (acting)[6] 28 August – 25 December 1991
Minister of EconomyYevgeny Saburov28 August – 25 December 1991
Minister of TradeAlexander Khlystov28 August – 25 December 1991
Minister of Foreign Economic RelationsValery Mangazeyev28 August – 25 December 1991
Minister of Foreign AffairsBoris Pankin (acting)28 August – 18 November 1991
Minister of External RelationsEduard Shevardnadze19 November – 19 December 1991
Minister of DefenceYevgeny Shaposhnikov29 August – 25 December 1991
Minister of InteriorVictor Barannikov29 August – 19 December 1991
Minister of CultureNikolai Gubenko7 September – 27 November 1991
Minister of Labour and Social AffairsNikolai Kolosov (acting)[7] 28 August – 25 December 1991

References

General

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20151117234427/http://bazazakonov.ru/doc/?ID=1538476 Постановление Верховного Совета СССР от 28 августа 1991 г. № 2367-I «О недоверии Кабинету Министров СССР»
  2. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/671 Комитет четырех: хорошее правительство в отсутствие страны
  3. http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/614 Указ Президента РСФСР от 19.12.1991 г. № 299
  4. http://www.praviteli.org/records/ussr/ussr2/silayev.php Биография: Силаев Иван Степанович — Правители России и Советского Союза
  5. http://sssr.su/zopp.html Закон СССР от 5 сентября 1991 года № 2392-I «Об органах государственной власти и управления Союза ССР в переходный период»
  6. Алексеев М.Ю., Пачкалов А.В. Министры финансов от Российской империи до наших дней./ Издательство: Альпина паблишер бизнес. М. 2019.
  7. https://news.rambler.ru/world/47100496-v-ssha-eltsin-nes-ahineyu-posledniy-ministr-sssr-o-krahe-strany-bastuyuschih-shahterah-donbassa-i-pyanyh-tolpah-v-moskve/ «В США Ельцин нес ахинею». Последний министр труда СССР — о крахе страны, бастующих шахтерах Донбасса и пьяных толпах в Москве