Ispolkom (исполком) is an Russian language abbreviation for "Ispolnitelny komitet" (исполнительный комитет), which may be translated as "executive committee". Russian (Russian: русский язык, russkij jazyk, â–¶(?)) is the most widely spoken language of Europe and the most widespread of the Slavic languages. ...

In the Soviet Union an ispolkom was a local organ of executive and regulatory power, an office of the local soviet. It consisted of the members of the soviet in question. In its subordination were various departments manned by ordinary clerks. A soviet (Russian: сове́т) originally was a workers local council in late Imperial Russia. ...

The following addition abbreviations were in use: gorispolkom ("gorod" (city) + "ispolkom") was an ispolkom of city Soviet, raiispolkom, was an ispolkom of a city raion soviet. Selispolkom is the one of a selsoviet and posispolkom for a possoviet (settlement soviet). See rayon for the textile made of processed cellulose. ... Selsoviet or selsovet (Russian: сельсове́т, short for се́льский сове́т), literally: rural soviet, was the lowest level administrative subdivision, similar to a rural district, in rural areas in the Soviet Union. ...

The term is still in use in some post-Soviet states, e.g., in Belarus (Belarusian: vykankom, выканком) and Ukraine (Ukrainian: vykonkom, виконком). The Post-Soviet states, also commonly known as former Soviet republics, are the independent nations which split off from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in its breakup in 1991. ...