The Ministry of the Gas Industry (Mingazprom; Russian: 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
edit- 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)
References
edit- ^ Directory of Soviet officials. National organizations. National Foreign Assessment Center. February 1989. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
- ^ Vavilov, A.; Nicholls, David (2016). Gazprom: An Energy Giant and Its Challenges in Europe. Springer. p. 16. ISBN 9781137461100.
- ^ Islam, M. Rafiqul (2014). Unconventional Gas Reservoirs: Evaluation, Appraisal, and Development. Elsevier. p. 35. ISBN 9780128005941.
- ^ "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1917-1964". Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
- ^ "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1964-1991". Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
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