Ministry of the Maritime Fleet
The Ministry of the Maritime Fleet, usually abbreviated and also MMF, was a government ministry in the Soviet Union.
The Merchant Maritime Fleet of the USSR is abbreviated . All Soviet merchant fleet organizations and establishments were subordinate to the Ministry of the Maritime Fleet, abbreviated.
History
Until 9 April 1939, functions of the Minmorflot were carried out by the People's Commissariat of Water Transport, which was responsible for both maritime and river fleets.On 9 April 1939, the People's Commissariat of Water Transport was abolished and split into the People's Commissariat of [the River Fleet] and the People's Commissariat of the Maritime Fleet. The structure of the People's Commissariat of the Maritime Fleet as a separate people's commissariat was confirmed by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars on 25 May 1939.
On 15 March 1946, the People's Commissariat of the Maritime Fleet was renamed the Ministry of the Maritime Fleet by decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, along with all the other people's commissariats, which also became ministries.
On 15 March 1953, Minmorflot was united with the Ministry of the River Fleet, becoming the Ministry of the Maritime and River Fleet.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet dated 25 August 1954, the Ministry of Maritime and River Fleet was re-established on 25 August 1954, when the Ministry of the Maritime Fleet and Ministry of the River Fleet was redivided.
Minmorflot was liquidated on 26 December 1991 due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Subordinate organizations and establishments
The Ministry of the Maritime Fleet was the head organization of Morflot. The main office of Minmorflot was in Moscow.The following establishments were subordinated to Minmorflot in from 1970–1991:
- Register of the USSR, today Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
- Maritime Container Service.
- Merchant Maritime Transport, abbreviated as or .
- Baltic Sea Shipping Company, Leningrad
- Estonian Shipping Company, Tallinn
- Latvian Shipping Company, Riga
- Lithuanian Shipping Company, Klaypeda
- Black Sea Shipping Company, Odessa
- Azov Shipping Company, Mariupol
- Novorossiysk Shipping Company, Novorossiysk
- Georgian Shipping Company, Batumi
- Soviet Dunaj Shipping Company or Dunaj-Sea Shipping Company, Izmail
- Far East Shipping Company, Vladivostok
- PRISCO, Primorie Shipping Company, Nahodka
- Sakhalin Shipping Company, Kholmsk
- Kamchatska Shipping Company, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
- Murmansk Shipping Company, Murmansk
- Sevmorput, the organisation controlling the Arctic Northeast Passage Sea route.
- , the North-Eastern Directorate of the Maritime Fleet.
- Caspian Shipping Company, Baku
- Central Asian Shipping Company
List of ministers
Ministers of Minmorflot from March 1946 to March 1953:| Name | Date of taking office | Date of removal from office |
| Pyotr Petrovich Shirshov | 19 March 1946 | 30 March 1948 |
| Alexander Alexandrovich Afanasyev | 30 March 1948 | 26 April 1948 |
| Acting minicter Nikolai Vasilevich Novikov | 26 April 1948 | 23 October 1948 |
| Nikolai Vasilevich Novikov | 23 October 1948 | 15 March 1953 |
Ministers of Minmorflot from August, 1954 to December, 1991:
| Name | Date of taking office | Date of removal from office |
| Viktor Georgievich Bakaev | 28 August 1954 | 14 January 1970 |
| Timofey Borisovich Guzhenko | 14 January 1970 | 27 September 1986 |
| Yuri Mikhailovich Volmer | 24 October 1986 | 28 August 1991 |
| Acting minister Yuri Mikhailovich Volmer | 28 August 1991 | 26 November 1991 |