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). One of its main duties was the creation of Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the USSR. The economy of the Soviet Union was based on a system of state ownership and administrative planning. ... Five-Year Plans or Piatiletkas (пятилетка) were a series of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development in the Soviet Union. ...

The organization 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. February 22 is the 53rd day of every year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Decree is an order that has the force of law. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... State motto: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Workers of the world, unite!) Official language None (Russian in practice) Capital Moscow Chairman of the Supreme Council Boris Yeltsin Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 1st in former Soviet Union 17,075,200 km² 0,5% Population  - Total (1989)  - Density Ranked 1st in the former... GOELRO plan (Russian: план ГОЭЛРО) was the first ever Soviet plan of recovery and development of the state economy, a prototype of Five Year Plans. ... August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

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).

Its 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. From 1919 to 1946, functions of ministers in the government of Russia and, later, the Soviet Union were performed by Peoples Commissars (Russian title: Narodny Komissar, or Narkom). ... Gosbank- Gosudarstvennyy bank--the State Bank The Gosbank was the central bank of the Soviet Union. ... Gossnab was the state committee for material technical supply in the Soviet Union. ...

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. Five-Year Plans or Piatiletkas (пятилетка) were a series of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development in the Soviet Union. ... The Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Russian: Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за = КПСС) was the name used by the successors of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party from 1952 to 1991, but the wording Communist Party was present in the partys name since 1918 when...

In 1930 the Statistical Directorate was merged into the Gosplan, and on February 3, 1931 Gosplan was resubordinated to Sovnarkom. February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

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.

Gosplan was headquartered at the same building which is now occupied by the Federation Council of Russia, in Moscow. The Plenary Chamber of the Federation Council The Federation Council of Russia (Совет Федерации) is the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (parliament of the Russian Federation), according to the Constitution of Russian Federation, 1993. ... Moscow (Russian: Москва́, Moskva, IPA: ▶(?)) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva. ...

Heads of Gosplan

• Gleb Krzhizhanovsky (1921-1923, 1925-1930)
• Alexander Tsuryupa (1923-1925)
• Valerian Kuibyshev (1930-1934)
• Valery Mezhlauk (1934-1937)
• Gennady Smirnov (February 25 - September 17 1937)
• Nikolai Voznesensky (1938-1941, 1942-1949)
• Maksim Saburov (1941-1942, 1949-1953, 1953-1955)
• Grigory Kosyachenko (March 5-June 29 1953)
• Nikolai Baibakov (1955-1957, 1965-1985)
• Iosif Kuzmin (1957-1959)
• Aleksei Kosygin (1959-1960)
• Vladimir Novikov (1960-1962)
• Veniamin Dymshits (July 17-November 24 1962)
• Pyotr Lomako (1962-1965)
• Nikolai Talyzin (1985-1988)
• Yury Maslyukov (1988-1991)

1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Valerian Vladimorovich Kuybyshev (also Kuibyshev; Russian: During 1928 - 1930 he was Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). ... June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Aleksey Nikolayevich Kosygin (Алексе́й Никола́евич Косы́гин) (1904 - December 18, 1980) was a politician and administrator in the Soviet Union. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... November 24 is the 328th day (329th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• Planned economy