Editing Gossnab

{{Short description|Soviet state committee for industrial technology supply}}
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'''State Supplies of the USSR''', known as the '''Gossnab of USSR''' ({{langx|ru|Госснаб СССР}}) was active from 1948 to 1953, and 1965 to 1991. Its full name was the State Committee for Material and 
Technical Supply of the [[USSR]]. Its primary responsibility was the wholesale allocation of material and technical goods to state enterprises, a critical state function in the absence of [[Market (economics)|market]]s.

Gossnab was one of more than twenty state committees under the [[Council of Ministers (Soviet Union)|Council of Ministers]], the administrative arm of the [[Soviet government]], along with other economic organs such as [[Gosplan]] (the state planning committee) and [[Gosbank]] (the state bank). Created amid a [[1965 Soviet economic reform|series of economic reforms]] implemented under [[Premier of the Soviet Union|Premier]] [[Alexei Kosygin]] in the mid-1960s, Gossnab coordinated the allocation of resources not handled by [[Gosplan]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of 05/15/1969 No. 352 "On the approval of the Regulations on the State Committee of the USSR", Article 3}}</ref> Gossnab had mixed success in creating a wholesale trade system, based on direct contracts between suppliers and users.{{cn|date=April 2024}}

The Gossnab coordinated with the USSR [[Gosplan|State Planning Committee]] (Gosplan), the [[Ministry of Finance (Soviet Union)|Ministry of Finance]] of the USSR and the sectoral ministries and departments of the USSR and the Union republics.

== Chairmen of the Gossnab ==

* 1947 - 1952  -  [[Lazar Kaganovich|Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich]]
* 1952 - 1953  -  [[Ivan Grigorievich Kabanov]]
* 1965 - 1976  - [[Veniamin Dymshits|Veniamin Emmanuilovich Dymshits]]
* 1976 - 1985 - {{ill|Nikolai Martynov (civil servant)|lt=Nikolai Vasilievich Martynov|ru|Мартынов, Николай Васильевич (государственный деятель)}}
* 1985 - 1989  - [[Lev Voronin|Lev Alekseevich Voronin]]
* 1989 - 1991  - [[Pavel Mostovoy|Pavel Ivanovich Mostovoy]]

==See also==
*[[Gosplan]]
*[[Soviet-type economic planning]]

==References==
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[[Category:State Committees of the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Economy of the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Economic planning]]
[[Category:1948 establishments in the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in the Soviet Union]]


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