| Министерство связи СССР | |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:1972_CPA_4169.jpg) Official emblem of the Ministry on a Soviet Union stamp (1972). The Ministry was responsible for issuing postage stamps in the USSR | |
| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 6 July 1923 |
| Dissolved | 26 December 1991 |
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| Jurisdiction | Government of the Soviet Union |
| Headquarters | 7 Gorky Street, Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union 55°45′26″N 37°36′53″E / 55.75722°N 37.61472°E |
| Annual budget | varied |
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The Ministry of Communications of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: Министерство связи СССР) was the central state administration body on communications in the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1991. During its existence it had three names: People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs (1923–32), People's Commissariat for Communications (1932–46) and Ministry of Communications (1946–1991). It had authority over the postal, telegraph and telephone communications as well as public radio, technical means of radio and television broadcasting, and the distribution of periodicals in the country.