ORGANIZATION OF THE MINISTRY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY USSR

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ORGANIZATION OF THE MINISTRY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY USSY2
rNumbers in parentheses refer to appended sources)
By ukase of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet of 24 Jnnuary 1939, the
People a Commissariat of Heavy Industry USSR vas subdivided into eiz indepen-
dent people's coermissariate;
People's Commissariat of Fuel Industry USSR
People's Commissariat of Electric Power Stations and Electrical Industry gggR
People's Commissariat of Ferrous Metallurgy USSR
People's Commissariat of Nonferrous Metallurgy USSR
People~e Commissariat of Chemical Industry UggR
People a Commissariat of Construction Materials Industry U33R
trol enterprises of iaitrogeaeindust~ryesbasic andCmineral the etryXala quc~p'n-
paint and aniline dye industry, iodine and bromine industry, rubber and caout-
dbuc industry, and plastics industry.(1)
A decree oP the Council of People's Commissars of 28 February 1939 con-
firms the following structure of the People's Commissariat of Chemical In-
dustry USSR:
Mafia Administration of Organic Chemistry
Main Administration of Basic Chemistry
Main Administration of Nitrogen Industry
Main Administration of Rubber Industry
Main Administration of Tire Industry
Main Administration of Caoutchouc Industry
Main Admiaistratioa of Aniline Dye Industry
Main Administration of Lacquer and Paint Ind+;stry
Mafia Administration of Iodine and Bromine Industry
Main Administration of Mineral Chemical Industry
Main Administration of Chemical Plastics
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Control and Inspection Group Attached to the People's Commissar
Planning Division
Finance Division
9eetor far Selecting and Registering Personnel
Workers and Aages Division
Economic Accounting Sector
Central Bookkeeping
Foreign Sector
Capital Construction Sector
Sales Sector
Military Division
Administration of Armed Guard and Antiaircraft Defense
Housing Division
Transport Division
Consumers' Goods Sector
Legal Division
Reception and Complaints Bureau
Inventions Bureau
Managing Administration
Special Sector
Secretariat of the People's Commissar and His Deputies
Archives (2)
On 28 June 1939, the People's Commissariat of Chemical Industry xae au-
thorized to organize a Main Administration for the Sale of Chemical Output
(Glavkhimabyt).(3)
The statute of the People's Commissariat of Chemical Industry xae con-
firmed by decree of 10 September 1939? The people's commissariat was to co-
ordinste and direct the folloxing branches of *.he chemical industry; nitrogen,
basic chemistry, mineral chemical, lacquer and paint, aniline dye, iodine and
bromine, rubber, raoutchouc, an3 plastics.
The following main administrations were organized for the control of enter-
prises in the pertinent branches of the i~duetry, either directly or through
trusts;
Main Admiaidtratioa of Construction
Main Administration of Supply
Main Administration of Educational Institutions
Technical Council
Glavkhimprom, Main Administration of Basic Chemistry, controls plants producing
sulfuric, hydrochloric, acetic, and ether acids; soda ash, nitrogenous f?~r-
tilizers, al?..nina, etc.
Glavazot, Miin Administration of Nitrogen Industry, controls plants produ^ing
ammonia, nitric acid, caustic, nitrogenous fertilizers, calcium ~rb.Le, etc.
Clavrezina, Main Pdminiatration of Rubber Industry, controls plants producing
rubber footwear, industrial products, ebonite products, reclaimed rubber,
and seamless products.
Glavshimprom, Main Administration of Tire Industry, controls plants producing
automobile and bicycle tare casings and inner tubes, cord, asbestos products,
etc.
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Glavkauchuk, Main Administration of Caoutchouc Industry, 6ontrols plants pro_
ducing synthetic rubber, natural rubber, calcium carbide, etc.
Glavanilprom, Main Administration of Aniline Dye Industry, controls pleats
producing aniline, dyes, and intermediate products.
Glavkraska, Main Administration of lacquer sad Paint Industry, c.;u;sole pleats
producing automobile and aircraft lacquers, enamels, dry and ground zinc oz-
ide, lithopone, solvents, etc.
G]aviodobrom, Main Administration of Iodine and Bromine Industry, controls pinata
producing bromine, iodine, magnesium chloride, and sodium chloride.
G]avgorkhim, Main Administration of Mineral Chemical Industry, controls eater-
pruieeeylVgag~erin the extraction and production of apatite, phosphorite, sul-
potaeaium chloride, pyrite, etc.
Glavkhimplast, Main Administration of Chemical P]aetics, controls p]ante pro-
ducing phenolic and formaldehyde resins, molding ponders, aminoplastics sad
products made from them, nitx'oplaetica, etc.
Glavaoabkhimprom, Main Administration oP Supply, determines the materials sad
equipment required by the people's commissariat, submits composite state-
ments of requirements to the proper planning organizations, receives and
distributes stocks, and directs the supply of enterpriees subordinate to
the people's commissariat.
Clavkhimabyt, Main Administration for the Sale of Chemical Output
GUUZ, Main Administration of Educational Institutions, directs educational
institutions subordinate to the People's Commiss:,riat of Chemical Indus-
try USSR
Geological Prospecting Administration
Within the main administrations, the following divisions were organized:
Production Management Division (the size to depend on the number and territo-
rial distribution of the enterprises and organizations under the ,~urisdic-
tion of the main administration)
Technical Division
Capital Construction Division
Supply Division
Finance Division
Planning Division
Workers and Wages Division
Bookkeeping, and other divisions azd sectors
In addition `~ the main administrations, with their subordinate agencies,
the following bodies were also organized under the People's Commissariat of
Chemical Industry:
Control and Inspection Group. This body checks on the fulfillment, by main
administrations, divisions, frusta, and a]l economic organizations, enter-
prises, and institutions of the People's Commissariat of Chemical Industry,
of the decrees of the party and government relating to the chemical tndue-
try, as well as orders of the People's Commissariat of Chemical Industry USSR.
Planning Division
Sector for Selection and Registration of Personnel
Finance Division
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Secretariat of the People's Commissar, His Deputies, and the Collegium oP the
People's Commissariat
Administration of Armed Guard and Antiaircraft Defense
Fuel and Powe': Inspection, Attached to the People's Commissar
Special Sector
Arbitration
Archives
Central Bookkeeping
Workers and Sieges Division
Capital Construction Sector
Housing Division
Economic Accounting Sector
Military Division
First Division
Transport Division
Conaumere' Goods Sector
Inventions Bureau
Bureau of S`andardization
Legal D11 iGA
Rec~.ption and Complaints Bureau
Managing Administration
A 'rPChnical Council was also established. It renders decisions on the
most important technical questions conf2'onting the mdid administrations, to
lams a~ieing be?eenarelatedpmain administrationsdisi~ giveatconenltatdonb
on technics] plans and estimates submitted for approval to the people's com-
missar. It also exercises general supervision and control over the xork of
the scientific research institutes of the People's Coummiesariat of Chem.+.cal
Industry USSR.
A Council of the People's Commissariat of Chemical Industry USSR, at-
tached to the people's commissar, was established for keeping in touch with
local d-,velopments and Por the interchange of experience. It was to meet
every 2 months 'to hear and discuss reports on the most important problems
in the work of the chemical industry.(4)
On 11 November 1939, the Council of People's Commissars authorized
the organization of the following trusts in the system of the Main Geo-
logical Administration Lan outgrowth of the Geological Prospecting Ad-
ministration7~ ,f the People's Commissariat of Chemical Industry;
Leningrad Geological Prospecting Trust in Leningrad
Central Aaia Geological Prospecting Trust in Tashkent
Saratov Geological Prospecting Trust in Saratov.(5)
On 26 March 1940, to improve the xork of enterprises of the tine indus-
try and the iodine and bromine industry, and to simplify the structure of the
People's Commissariat of Chemical Industry, the Council of People's Commissars
decreed;
1. io liquidate the Main Administration of Tire Industry; to make enter-
prises of the tine industry directly subordinate to the People's Commissar of
Chemical Industry; and to subordinate enterprises engaged in carbon black, cord,
rubber and asbestos, and reclaimed rubber production, to the Main Administra-
tion of Rubber (Glavrezina).
2. To liquidate the Main Administration of Iodine and Bromine Industry,
and to subordinate its enterprisec to the Sixth Main Administration of the
People's Commissariat of Chemical Industry.(6)
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By ukase of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of 28 March 1941, the
People's Commissariat of Rubber Industry USSR vas established. It vas to
include enterprises producing caoutchouc, rubber, tires, sad asbestos.(7)
The Feople's Commissariat of Chemical Industry and the People's Com-
missariat of Rubber Industry appear to have existed independently from
1941 to 1948, to 3udge from: latex. infors~atioa noted below. Both were pre-
sumably reorganized into ministries is 1946, at the time the Council of
People's Commissars vas converted into the Council of Miniatere.(8)
By 1947, a Main Administration of Soda Industry (Glavaoda) had been or-
Beaized in the Ministry of Chemical Induetry.(1O) The pollowing or?saizatione
were also subordinate to the Ministry of Chemical Industry at that time;
Economic Planning Division (10)
Consumers' Goode Division (11)
Division of porkers, Labor, and pages (12)
Technical Administration (13)
State Planning Institute (Giprokhim) (13)
Urals Scientific Research Institute (12)
A 1948 source gives the following structure of the Ministry of Chemical
Industry and the Ministry of Rubber Industry;
Ministry of Chemical Industry USSR
First Main Administration
Second Main Administration
.Third Main Administration
Glavazot, Main Administration of Ritrogen Industry
Glavanilprom, Main Administration of Aniline. Dye industry
Glavgorkhimprom, Main Administration of ,Mineral Chemical Industry
GlavkraslB, Main Administration of lacquer and Paint Industry
Glavure, Maia Administration of porkers' Supply
GLavaoda, Maia Admiaist~?ation of Soda Industry
Glavkhimplaetmasa, Main Administration of Chemical Plastics Industry
Glavkhimprom, Main Administration of Basic Chemical Industry
Glavkhimprometroy, Main Administration for the Construction and Erection of
Enterprises of the Chemical Industry
Glavkhimreaktiv, Main Administration for the Production and Sale of Chemically
Pure Reagents
Gla~yimabyt, Main Administration for the Sale of Output of the Chemical Indus-
Glavkhimenab, Main Administratiott o!?'81ipp2yn
GUUZ, Main Admiaistratiott of Educational Institutions
The minietr; also had ~uriediction over the following chemical inati-
tutea:
State Institute'od"~Applied Chemistry
Scientific Research Institute of Organic Intermediates and Dyea'
Scientific Research Institute and Experimental Plant imeai Frunze (9)
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Ministry of Rubber Industry USSR
Glavlosuchuk, Main Administration of Caoutchouc Industry
Glavurs, Main Administration of Warkere' Supply
Glavrastkauchuk, Main Administration of Natural Rubber
Glavrezinoebyt, Main Administration far the Sale of Output of the Rubber Indus-
try
Glavrezinoetroy, Main Administration far the Construction Rn.i v,.e;.+a..., ... ~____
Glavreziaotekhnika, Maia Administration of Industrial Rubber Products Industry
Glav9nah_ Navin eAmi nt~+.w+~..-.,,a- .___. __
Glavshinprom, Main Administration of Tire Industry
Division of Educational Institutions (14)
util'~e more completely the ~ ''?" -" "'?" " `?-1OO? ova
lnav ro tt,e ,.,,.,,,.i e.. ,, _. ?__ production ca_ cities of the enterprises involved, to
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Mikhail Georgi'yevich Pervukhin was appointed Minister of Chemical Induetry,(16)
The more recent sources which are available give no indication of any further
Main Administration of Lacquer and Paint Industry (17)
Main Administration of.Nitrogen Industry; Bomeheyn~chief, died 23 March 1950 (18)
Main Administration of Mineral Chemical Industry (19)
Main Administration of Industrial Rubber Produc+,s Industry; chief engineer, Boga-
yevakiy (20)
Main Administration of Tire Industry (17)
Main Administratior. of soda Industry; chief engineer, Kirichenko (2'1
Capital Construction Division (21)
Scientific Research Institute of Fertilizers and insectofungicldes (22)
Sixth Erection Trust, with jurisdiction over:
Moscow Erection Administration
Dneprodzerzhinsk Er~?ction Administration
Llsichansk Electrical Wiring Administration (23)
The Minister of Chemical Industry is now Sergei M. Tikhomirov, who re-
placed Mikhail Georgiyevich Perwkhin in January 1950.(24) Mitrokhin is a
deputy minister.(21)
1. "On the Subdivision of the People's Co~miseariat of Heavy Industry USSR,"
Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta SSSR, ao 3., 1939; also'Bol'shaya Sovetskaya
Entsiklopediya, Vol 41, 1939, P 223
?? "On the Structure and Staffs of the People's Commissariat of Chemical In-
dustry USSR, 28 February 1939," Sobraniye poatanovleniy i'rasporyazheoiy
pravitel stun SSSR, No 19, Item 126, 1939
3? "On thA nrRanization Within the People's Commissariat of Chemical Indus-
try of the Main Administration for the Bale of Chemical Output,. 28 June
1939," Sobraniye poatanovleniy i?rasporyazheniy pravite~'stva SSSRy No 41,
Item 312, 1939
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4. "On the Confirmation of the Statute on the People's Commissariat of Chemi-
cal Industry U88R, 10 September 1939," Sobraniye poetanovleniy 1 rasporya-
zhealy pravi'el'stva 888R, No 52, Item 443, 1939
5? "On the Organization of Geological Prospecting Trusts in the System of the
Main Geological Administration of the People's Commissariat of Chemical In-
dustry, 11 November 1939," Sobraniye postanovleniy 1 raeporyazheaiy pravi-
tel'stva 8898, No 5?, Item 585, 1939? This is the earliest available ref-
erence to this mein adminlatratioa.
6. "On the Liquidation of the Main Administrations of Tire, and Iodine and
Bromine Industry of the People's Commissariat of Chemical Industry, 26
March 1940," Sobraniye poetanovleniy i raeporyazheniy pravitel'atva SSSR
No 9, Item 248, 140 '
7. "On the Establishment of the People's Commissariat of Rubber Industry
USSR," Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta SBSR, No 14, 1941
8. Bol'shaya Sovetskaya Entsiklopediya, USSR Supplement, 1948, p 739
9? Moscow, Khimicheekiye Reaktivy, Tsennik-Zayavka, State Scientific-Tech-
nical Publishing House for Chemical Literature, 1946
10. Moscow, Khimicheskaya Promyshlennoat', No 1, Jan 47
11. Ibid., No 3, Mar 47
12. Ibid., Yo 8, pug 47
13. Ibid., No 4, Apr li7
14. Moskva--Xratkays Adresno-spravochnaya kniga (Moscow -- Short Address and
Information Book), Moskovskiy Rabochiy Publishing House, 1948
15? Moscow, Pravda, 7 and 16 Mar 49
16.
17 .
Minsk, Sovetskaya Beloruasiya, 22 Aug 48
Moscow, Izveatiys, 7 Sep 51
Moskovskaya Pravda, 25 Mar 50
19. Baku, Bakinakiy Rabochiy, 2 Jul 50
20. Pravda, 28 May 51
21. Pravda, 13 May 51
22. Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 28 Apr 51
23? Moscow, Trud, 10 A:,g 51
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