People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs
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People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs, and known as the Narkompochtel, was set up on , following the Bolshevik
seizure of Power in Russia
.
The first commissar was Nikolai Glebov-Avilov
, who sat on Sovnarkom.
During the October Revolution
of 1917 Council of People's Commissars took control of the former Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs which had been taken over by the workers who had formed a soviet
. On , the People's Commissar for Posts and Telegraphs issued a decree dissolving the former administration, which also concluded "I declare that no so-called initiatory groups or committees for the administration of the department of Posts and Telegraphs can usurp the functions belonging to the central power and to me as People's Commissar".
On 17 January 1932 the Commissariat was renamed the People's Commissariat for Communications of the USSR.
In 1946 it was replaced by the Ministry of Communications of the USSR
.
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....
seizure of Power in Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
.
The first commissar was Nikolai Glebov-Avilov
Nikolai Glebov-Avilov
Nikolai Glebov-Avilov was a prominent Bolshevik.Glebov-Avilov was the son of a cobbler who started work in a printshop in Kaluga. He became a Bolshevik in 1904, and during the 1905 Revolution, he was active in Moscow Kaluga and the Urals working in underground printshops, being hidden by the...
, who sat on Sovnarkom.
During the October Revolution
October Revolution
The October Revolution , also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution , Red October, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a political revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution of 1917...
of 1917 Council of People's Commissars took control of the former Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs which had been taken over by the workers who had formed a soviet
Soviet (council)
Soviet was a name used for several Russian political organizations. Examples include the Czar's Council of Ministers, which was called the “Soviet of Ministers”; a workers' local council in late Imperial Russia; and the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union....
. On , the People's Commissar for Posts and Telegraphs issued a decree dissolving the former administration, which also concluded "I declare that no so-called initiatory groups or committees for the administration of the department of Posts and Telegraphs can usurp the functions belonging to the central power and to me as People's Commissar".
| People's Commissar for Posts and Telegraphs | Term of office |
|---|---|
| Nikolai Glebov-Avilov Nikolai Glebov-Avilov Nikolai Glebov-Avilov was a prominent Bolshevik.Glebov-Avilov was the son of a cobbler who started work in a printshop in Kaluga. He became a Bolshevik in 1904, and during the 1905 Revolution, he was active in Moscow Kaluga and the Urals working in underground printshops, being hidden by the... |
8 November 1917 - 23 December 1917 |
| Prosh Proshyan | 23 December 1917 - 11 March 1918 |
| Vadim Podbelsky Vadim Podbelsky Vadim Nikolayevich Podbelsky was a Russian revolutionary and Bolshevik statesman following the Russian Revolution.Podbelsky joined the Bolshevik Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1905. During the 1905 uprising he was involved in anti-government demonstrations and meetings... |
11 March 1918- 1 March 1920 |
| Artemi Lyubovitsh | 1 March 1920 - 1 January 1921 |
| Valerian Dovgalevski | 1 January 1921 - 25 May 1925 |
| Ivan Smirnov Ivan Nikitich Smirnov Ivan Nikitich Smirnov was a Communist Party activist.In 1899, Smirnov joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and became a Bolshevik. He led his party activity in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Vyshniy Volochok, Rostov, Kharkov, and Tomsk. Smirnov was subject to repeated arrests... |
25 May 1925 - 1 January 1927 |
| Artemi Lyubovitsh | 1 January 1927 - 17 January 1928 |
| Nikolai Antipov | 17 January 1928 - 30 March 1931 |
| Alexey Rykov | 30 March 1931 - 17 January 1932 |
On 17 January 1932 the Commissariat was renamed the People's Commissariat for Communications of the USSR.
| People's Commissar for Communications | Term of office |
|---|---|
| Alexey Rykov | 17 January 1932 - 26 September 1936 |
| Genrikh Yagoda Genrikh Yagoda Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda , born Enokh Gershevich Ieguda , was a Soviet state security official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's Stalin-era security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936... |
26 September 1936 - 5 April 1937 |
| Innokenti Khalepski | 5 April 1937 - 17 August 1937 |
| Matvei Berman Matvei Berman Matvei Davidovich Berman was a Soviet intelligence officer and head of the GULAG Soviet prison camp system from 1932 to 1937.-Life:... |
17 August 1937 - 1 July 1938 |
| (vacant) | 1 July 1938 - 7 May 1939 |
| Ivan Peresypkin Ivan Peresypkin Ivan PeresypkinSoviet Marshal / Russian Marshal of Signals PERESYPKIN Ivan Terentyevich From May 1939 to July 1944 - People's Commissar of Signal Forces of the USSR Ivan PeresypkinSoviet Marshal / Russian Marshal of Signals PERESYPKIN Ivan Terentyevich (1904 - 1978)From May 1939 to July 1944 -... |
10 May 1939 - 20 July 1944 |
| Konstantin Sergeychuk | 20 July 1944 - 15 March 1946 |
In 1946 it was replaced by the Ministry of Communications of the USSR
Ministry of Communications (Soviet Union)
The Ministry of Communications of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the central state administration body on communications in the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1991...
.