Gosplan
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Gosplan (Госпла́н) was the committee for economic planning in the Soviet Union. The word "Gosplan" is a shortcut for Gosudarstvenny Komitet po Planirovaniyu (Государственный комитет по планированию, State Committee for Planning).
The organizaion was created on February 22, 1921 by the decree of the Sovnarkom of the RSFSR under the name "RSFSR State Planning Commission". The prototype of its work was GOELRO plan. With the creation of the USSR, on August 21, 1923 the USSR State Planning Commision at the USSR Council of Labor and Defence (СТО СССР, Совет Труда и Обороны СССР) was established. The abbreviation "Gosplan" has been in use since 1921.
Initially Gosplan had an advisory role. Its goal was coordination of the plans of Union republics and the creation of the common Union plan. Since 1925 Gosplan started creating common yearly all-economy plans, known under the name of "control numbers" (контрольные цифры).
His work was coordinated with the USSR Central Statistical Directorate (центральное статистическое управление СССР), Narkomat of Finance and All-Union Council of State Economy (ВСНХ), and later with Gosbank and Gossnab.
With the introduction of five year plans in 1928 Gosplan became primarily responsible for their creation and supervision according to the outlines set by the Party.
In 1930 the Statistical Directorate was merged into the Gosplan, and on February 3, 1931 Gosplan was resubordinated to Sovnarkom.
In may 1955 Gosplan was split into two commissions: for perspective planning and for current planning: USSR Council of Ministers State Commission for Perspective Planning (Государственная комиссия СМ СССР по перспективному планированию) (USSR Gosplan) and USSR Council of Ministers Economical Commission for Current Planning of State Economy(Государственнaая экономическая комиссия СМ СССР по текущему планированию народного хозяйства (Госэкономкомиссия СССР). The work of the latter one was based on the five-year plans delivered by Gosplan, with Gosplan planning for 10-15 years ahead.
Heads of Gosplan
- Gleb Krzhizhanovsky (1921-1923, 1925-1930)
- Alexander Tsuryupa (1923-1925)
- Valerian Kuibyshev (1930-1934)
- Valery Mezhlauk (1934-1937)
- Nikolai Voznesensky (1938-1949)
- Aleksei Kosygin (1959-1960)
- Nikolai Baibakov (1965-1985)