Ministry of General Machine-Building

Ministry of General Machine-Building

Министерство общего машиностроения СССР
Buran at the 1989 Paris Air Show
Agency overview
Formed	2 April 1955; 69 years ago (1955-04-02) (initially) 2 March 1965; 59 years ago (1965-03-02) (reestablished)
Preceding agency	State Committee on Defense Technology
Dissolved	10 May 1957; 67 years ago (1957-05-10) (initially) 14 November 1991; 33 years ago (1991-11-14) (permanently)
Superseding agency	Russian Space Agency
Jurisdiction	Soviet Union
Employees	1,000,000–1,500,000
Minister responsible	Minister of General Machine-Building
Parent agency	Military-Industrial Commission
Child agencies	OKB-1 Glavkosmos Research Institute of Machine-Building Technology

The Ministry of General Machine-Building (Russian: Министерство общего машиностроения СССР; MOM), also known as Minobshchemash, was a government ministry of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1957 and from 1965 to 1991. The ministry supervised the research, development, and production of ballistic missiles as well as launch vehicles and satellites in the Soviet space program.