People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs of the USSR

For other uses, see People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs.
People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs of the USSR
Народный комиссариат
почт и телеграфов СССР
(НКПТ, НКПиТ, Наркомпочтель СССР)
Official emblem of the Commissariat
on a telephone hatch in Kharkov
Agency overview
Formed12 November 1923; 100 years ago (1923-11-12)
Preceding agency
Dissolved17 January 1932; 92 years ago (1932-01-17)
Superseding agency
  • People's Commissariat for Communications of the USSR
JurisdictionCouncil of People's Commissars
Headquarters7 Gorky Street, Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
55°45′26″N 37°36′53″E / 55.75722°N 37.61472°E / 55.75722; 37.61472
Annual budgetvaried
Agency executive
  • Alexey Rykov (1931–32), People's Commissar for Posts and Telegraphs
Child agency
  • several

People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs of the USSR was the central organ of the Soviet Union government that was in charge of the organisation and administration of the different forms of communication including posts. It existed between 1923 and 1932.[1]

  1. ^ Владинец, Н. И.; Ильичёв, Л. И.; Левитас, И. Я.; Мазур, П. Ф.; Меркулов, И. Н.; Моросанов, И. А.; Мякота, Ю. К.; Панасян, С. А.; Рудников, Ю. М.; Слуцкий, М. Б.; Якобс, В. А. (1988). Народный комиссариат почт и телеграфов СССР [People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs of the USSR]. In Владинец, Н. И.; Якобс, В. А. (eds.). Большой филателистический словарь [Great Philatelic Dictionary] (in Russian). Moscow: Радио и связь. ISBN 5-256-00175-2. Archived from the original on 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2015-06-08.