Ministry of Defense Industry (Soviet Union)

The Ministry of Defense Industry (Minoboronprom; Russian: Министерство оборонной промышленности СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union, established on 8 December 1936. == History == It was originally established on 8 December 1936 as the People's Commissariat of Defence Industry of the USSR on the basis of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry of the USSR. On 11 January 1939, a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR divided the People's Commissariat of Defence Industry into four departments: the People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry, People's Commissariat of the Shipbuilding Industry, People's Commissariat of Arms and People's Commissariat of Munitions.

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