STATE PLANNING COMMITTEE UNDER THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS USSR

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Historical Background, 1920= 1939
The origin of Gosplan (State Planning Committee) dates back to the Commis-
sion for Electrification established in 1920, or even to the Commission for
Utilization (Komissiya Ispolzovaniya) set up in 1919.
In February 1921, the actual functions and responsibilities of Gosplan
were first spelled out in the decree on the organization of a State Planning
Commission. The basic functions of the commission, then as now, are to pre-
pare and coordinate a general state plan and to guide and control the develop-
ment of the plan as it is carried out.
Regional planning started to be developed with the organization of a net-
work of local planning organs in 1922 and came into its own in 1925 when detailed
regulations on the division of functions between regional and central organs were
set down with the establishment of the State Planning Commission RSFSR.(l)
In April 1935, the Council of People's Commissars USSR materially changed
the structure of Gosplan as it had existed up to that time, to distinguish more
clearly between functional and coordinative planning and to strengthen the
control function of Gosplan. However, certain weaknesses in the new structure
of Gosplan became apparent in the next 2 years,-so-,that it became necessary to re-
organize the commission again in 1938. These chang,~s were made in a decree of
the Council of People's Commissars of 2 February l938.(2) Since the functions
and, to a lesser degree, the organizational structure of Gosplan as set down in
this decree form-the basis of Gosplan's.present make-up, ar outline of those
functions follows in summary form:
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Gosplan; The Revised Statute of 2 February 1938
1. Gosplan is made a permanent Commission of the Council of People's
Commissars USSR.
2. It consists of 11 members, individually approved by the Council of
People's Commissars USSR from among leading planning workers and from among
the most prominent scientific workers and specialists.
3. Gosplan's functions are as follows:
a. To work out and su`'mit to the Council of People's Commissars USSR
long-term yearly and quarterly national economic plans
b. To submit to the Council of People's Commissars its recommendations
on the plans prepared by the commissariats and other departments of the USSR, and
by the constituent republics
c. To check fulfillment of the approved economic plans of the USSR
d. To work out the details on the instructions of the Council of
People's Commissars USSR and on its own initiative to study particular problems
of socialist economy
e. To appoint expert commissions on particular economic questions
f. To work out and submit for approval by the Council of People's Com-
missars USSR methodological problems of socialist planning
g. To supervise the work of socialist statistics,
4+. Gosplan's primary function is to coordinate the development of various
branches of the economy and to eliminate disproportions in the economy.
5. Gosplan checks plan fulfillment and makes recommendations on the basis
of ex post facto study of the actual development of the plan.
6. To carry out the above functions, Gosplan has central planning depart-
ments, sectors, and groups, as well as agents in the republics, krays, and ob-
lasts which check on the fulfillment of the economic plans. These agents are
directly subordinate to Gosplan USSR and work independently of the republic, Ob-
last and, regional planning commissions.
7. The Central Administration of Accounting for the National Economy is
part of the State Planning Commission.
a. Over-all national economic plan division, with a group for national
economy balance
b. Capital construction division, with a group for construction mater-
ials balance
c. Finance division (budget and credit)
d. Division for distribution of enterprises and regional planning.
The number of sectors dealing with special branches of the economy was
increased to 21, as follows:
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Natural resources
Fuel - group for fuel balance
Electric Power - group for power balance
Metallurgy - group for metal balance
Chemical industry
Machine building - group for equipment balance
Air and road transport
Timber industry
Food industry
Light industry
Railroad transport
Water transport
Agriculture
Trade
Local and cooperative industry
Building materials industry
Housing and Sanitation
Foreign trade
Culture and cadre
Health
Communications
a. A sector for the training of planners
b. An office for the subsequent registration of inventions
c. Internal administrative department
d. Planovoye Khozyya s tvo and publication department
e. Secretariat of the Chairman of Gosplan
9. The repre9entatives of Gosplan in the republics, krays, and oblasts are
appointed and dismissed by the Council of People's Commissars USSR on the advice
of the chairman of Gosplan.
10. Organs of Gosplan have the right to require from commissariats and other
government departments necessary data and explanations for checking the fulfillment
of the economic plans.
11. Planning commissions under union and autonomous republics and under kray
or oblast executive committees are guided by directives of Gosplan USSR on questions
of planning methodology and checking of plan fulfillment.
12. Under the .ate Planning Commission is a council composed of members of
Gosplan, representative agencies of Gosplan, and other planning workers, number-
ing in all up to 90 persons.(3)
Few changes were made between 1938 and the next reorganization of Gosplan in
December 1940. In April 1938 an Office of Prices was created with a staff of nine
or ten workers.(4)
Organization of Gosplan From 1940 to the Present
On 31 December 1940, the State Planning Commission was again reorganized.
The structure of Gosplan after this reorganization was as follows:(5)
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Sectors:
Production and capital repair
Production expenditures
Checking plan fulfillment
National economy balance
Over-all transport plan
Over-all plan
Construction industry
Over-all capital work plan
Water economy
Special constructions
Financial plan
Budget
Credit and cash plan
5. Labor Division
Sectors:
Labor and wages
Training and allocation of personnel
Group on resettlement
6. Far East and East Siberia Regions Division
7. Urals and West Siberia Regions Division
8. Central Asia and Kazakhstan Regions Division
9. Transcaucasus Regions Division
10. Southern Regions Division
11. Central Industrial Region Division
12. Southeast Division
13. North and Northwest Division
14. West Division
15. Over-All Division of Regional Planning and Location of Enterprises
16. Fuel Division
Sectors:
Fuel balance
Coal and shale industry
Petroleum and gas industry
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Ferrous metals balance
Nonferrous metals (including cable products) balance
Lumber materials balance
Construction supply
High-grade steel
Power equipment balance
Tool and instrument balance
Technological equipment balance
Construction balance and transport equipment
19. Electric Power Division
Sectors:
Production and distribution of electric power
Electric power station construction
Heavy machine building
Medium machine building
General machine building
Coordination
Over-all plan
Fish industry
Food industry
Meat and dairy industry
Textile industry
Light industry
Raw material balances and semifinished products
23. Agriculture Division
Sectors:
Land cultivation
Livestock raising (husbandry)
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Industrial crops
MPS
Sovkhozes
Group on irrigation and amelioration
24. Trade Division
Sectors:
Goods distribution
Commodity stock balance
Trade
Group on general supplies
Group on trade network and cost of distribution
25. Culture Division
Sectors:
Schools and higher educational institutes
Arts
26. Natural Resources Division
27. Ferrous Metallurgy Division
Sectors:
Production and distribution
Capital work and equipment
Group on high-grade steel and ferroalloys
28. Nonferrous Metallurgy Division
Sectors:
Production and distribution
Capital work and equipment
Production and distribution
Capital work and equipment
Group on special chemistry
30. Aviation and Road Transport Division
Sector of auto transport
Group on aviation transport
Group on railroad transport
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Timber Industry
Paper and cellulose industry
Forestry
Group on hydrolytic industry
32. Railroad Transport Division
Sectors:
Freight hauling
Capital repair
33.. Water Transport Division
Sectors:
River transport
Maritime transport (including Northern'Sea Route)
Procurement ^rd balance of agricultural' products
Flour and grr,sta.milling industry
35. Office of Prices
36. Local Industry and Industrial Cooperatives Division
Sectors:
Local and fuel induatry
Industrial cooperatives
37. Construction Materials Industry' Division
'38. Housing and Communal Economy Division
39. Foreign Trade Division
40. Health Division
Sectors:
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Medical institutes'
Children's Institutions
Communications Division
Inventions Office
Economy and Substitutes Office
Mobilization Division
Personnel Division
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46. Secretariat of Chairman of Gosplan and control group
47. Administration. Secret unit
Contract unit
Bookkeeping
Library
Machine officer
Archives
Expeditions
48. Planovoye Khozyaystvo
49. Gosplanizdat Publishing House
50. Technical and Economic Information Institute
51. Central Administration of National Economic Accounting and its local
organs
52. Authorized agents of Gosplan USSR
53. Council of Scientific and Technical Experts
54. Council under Gosplan USSR
55. All-Union Economic Academy imeni Molotov
On 29 August 1946 the Council of Ministers USSR established new regulations
for.the development, examination, and ratification of annual national economic
plans. The purpose of this decree was to strengthen the control function of Gos-
Together with the new regulations on auditing and ratifying the national eco-
nomic plan, the government changed the structure of the State Planning Commission
USSR. Exact details of the new organization are not known, but the following ex-
tracts from a periodical article give some indication as to the changes which
were made in the organization of Gosplan in 1946:
"The new structure of Gosplan creates organizational conditions for the im-
provement of its uperations, First, it.improves the work of planning national
economic interrelations and.prbportions and assures the development of all branches
and sectors of the national economy. 'For this purpose, there are now two over-all
divisions in Gosplan instead of a single over-all division which existed before the
present reorganization. These two divisions are the Over-All Division of Long
Range Plans and the Over-All Division of the fnnuag National Economic Plans,
"The establishment of an Over-All Division of Long-Range Plans aims at as-
suring the all-out development of long-range national economic plane, as well as
long-range plans of individual branches. Work on the long-range plans must be
systematic and must assure the necessary coordination with the 'current national
economic plans. The Over-All Division of Long-Range Plans must keep a continuous
check on the execution of the Five-Year Plan by ministries, departments, and union
republics.
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"The Over-All Division of the National Economic Plans, in which a special
sector of national economic relations and proportions has been set up, must
coordinate industrial and agricultural production, national economy and trans-
port, consumption and accumulation and other important national economic divisions
of the annual plan.
"A new Division of Production has also been created which will work out
over-all plans of industrial production and effect proper coordination between
branches of industry. This division is divided into a producers' goods sector,
consumers' goods sector, and the sector of productive proportions.
"Together with the consolidation and unification of Gosplan divisions,
special administrations for planning the largest branches of the national
economy, such as the fuel industry, machine building, agriculture, transport,
and construction industry, have been established. The administrations are
called upon to coordinate the work of divisions of the different branches and
to guarantee correct relationships within each branch. For example, previously
there existed within Gosplan several independent machine-building divisions.
"The newly created Planning Administration of Machine Building has unified
divisions which are planning different branches of machine building. The Plan-
ning Administration of Machine Building must establish correct internal production
relationships and interrelations in the machine-building industry; organize
proper coordination and specialization of enterprises; assure complete assembly of
machine-building production; and draw up an over-all plan for the machine-build-
ing industry. The Planning Administration of Machine Building is also called on
to decide complex questions concerning the creation of a technical production base
for various branches of the national economy.
"The Planning Administration for Agriculture unifies the work of soil culti-
vation, industrial crop, livestock raising, sovkhoz, and kolkhoz sectors, machine
tractor stations, and other sectors. This administration must work out a complex
plan embracing all agricultural activities and must establish coordination among
the different branches of agriculture and assure the most advantageous regional al-
location of agricultural production.
"Planning administrations for the important branches of the economy (machine
building, construction industry, agriculture, transport, etc.) have over-all
sectors which are called on to work out over-all branch plans.
"A new sector for the balance of monetary income and expenditures of the
population which will assure the necessary correlation between the increase in
goods and services on the market and the income of the population has been formed.
"Systematic reduction of expenditures in production of goods is a lath of in-
creased socialist production. The new structure of the Division of Prices and Cost,
which includes sectors for planning production, marketing, and administrative ex-
penditures, improves the planning of production costs and sales expenditures and
also assures organizational coordination of the over-all plan of production expen-
ditures with the financial plan of the national economy.
"The reorganization of the Administration of Territorial Distribution, within
which sectors for union republics have been set up, also has great significance.
This reorganization reflects the economic growth of union republics and will aid in
the economic development of basic economic regions.
"The new Gosplan structure creates the essential conditions for the successful
solution of its basic tasks -- establishment of correct economic relations and pro-
portions among different economic branches and among economic regions and union
republics.
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Deputy Chairmen: Demidov, S.F. (identified October 1949)
lavrishchev, AN. (identified may 1947)
Kozhevnikov, E.F. (identified December 1947)
Perov, G. V. (identified September 1948)
"The state technical plan is now an organic part of the current and long-
range national economic plan. The newly established technical division in
Gosplan aims at developing a truly scientific technical plan covering the most
important branches of science and technology."(6)
No information is available as to further organizational changes-which
took place since 1946. However, some changes probably have occurred since an
Animal Husbandry Division (formerly sector) has recently been identified.(7)
Furthermore, on 9 January 1948 the State Planning Commission was renamed the
State Planning Committee.(8)
Officials of Gosplan
The following Gosplan officials were mentioned in Biographic Information
Report No 138.1 of the US State Department:
Chairman: Saburov, M..Z. (identified December 1949)
Deputy Chairman (for general affairs): Panov, A..D. (identified February
1947)
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Bol'shaya Entsiklopediya, Moscow, 1927.
Planovoye Khozyaystvo, No 11, 1940.
Pravda, 3 Feb 1938; also Sobraniye Postanovleniy i Rasporyazheniy
Pravitel'stva SSSR, No 7, 28 Mar 1938.
Sobraniye Postanovleniy ... SSSR, No 17, 28 Apr 1938.
Sobraniye Postanovleniy .. SSSR,?No 2?, 16 Jan 1941.
Planovoye Khozyaystvo, No 5, 1946.
Izvestiya, 6 Jun 1951
Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta SSSR, 29 Jun 1950.
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