Ministry of the Gas Industry explained

The Ministry of the Gas Industry (Mingazprom; ru|Министерство газовой промышленности СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union responsible for the Soviet oil industry and related sectors.

It was created in 1957 as the Main Administration for the Gas Industry; renamed State Production Committee for the Gas Industry in 1963. It received its ministerial title in 1965.^[1] In 1989 Gazprom was established as a successor to the ministry.^[2] After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, assets outside of Russia were transferred to national companies such as Ukrgazprom and Turkmengazprom.^[3]

List of ministers

Source:^{[4] [5]}

• Aleksei Kortunov (2 October 1965 - 20 September 1972)
• Sabit Orujov (20 September 1972 - 10 May 1981)
• Vasili Dinkov (10 May 1981 - 13 February 1985)
• Viktor Chernomyrdin (13 February 1985 - 17 July 1989)

Notes and References

1. Book: Directory of Soviet officials. National organizations. February 1989. National Foreign Assessment Center. 19 November 2017.
2. Book: Vavilov. A.. Nicholls. David. Gazprom: An Energy Giant and Its Challenges in Europe. 2016. Springer. 9781137461100. 16. en.
3. Book: Islam. M. Rafiqul. Unconventional Gas Reservoirs: Evaluation, Appraisal, and Development. 2014. Elsevier. 9780128005941. 35. en.
4. 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.
5. 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.