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,Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR dated 25 August 1954 on the formation of all-Union Ministries of Maritime and River Fleets of the USSR on 25 August 1954, when the Ministry of the Maritime Fleet and Ministry of the River Fleet of the USSR were divided. (). 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: (, Soviet shipping agency) Register of the USSR, today Russian Maritime Register of Shipping Maritime Container Service (). Merchant Maritime Transport, abbreviated as or (, ). The merchant marine was divided into shipping companies and sea routes. The following subordinate shipping companies to Minmorflot from 1960–1991: 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 (Seaside) 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 (Aral Sea)
Each Soviet seaport was part of the closest shipping company.
List of ministers Ministers of Minmorflot from March 1946 to March 1953: NameDate of taking officeDate of removal from officePyotr Petrovich Shirshov(1905—1953)19 March 194630 March 1948Alexander Alexandrovich Afanasyev(1903—1991)30 March 194826 April 1948Acting minicterNikolai Vasilevich Novikov(1909—1971)26 April 194823 October 1948Nikolai Vasilevich Novikov(1909—1971)23 October 194815 March 1953
Ministers of Minmorflot from August, 1954 to December, 1991: NameDate of taking officeDate of removal from officeViktor Georgievich Bakaev(1902—1987)28 August 195414 January 1970Timofey Borisovich Guzhenko(1918—2008)14 January 197027 September 1986Yuri Mikhailovich Volmer(born in 1933)24 October 198628 August 1991Постановление Верховного Совета СССР от 28 августа 1991 г. № 2366-I «Об освобождении Павлова В. С. от обязанностей Премьер-министра СССР». Согласно части 2 статьи 13 Закона СССР «О Кабинете Министров СССР» отставка Премьер-министра влекла за собой отставку Кабинета Министров в полном составе. Согласно части 3 статьи 13 Закона СССР «О Кабинете Министров СССР» члены правительства (включая, Вольмера и Панюкова) продолжили работать в ранге и. о.Acting ministerYuri Mikhailovich Volmer(born in 1933)28 August 199126 November 1991Указ Президента СССР от 26 ноября 1991 г. N УП-2884 "О членах бывшего Кабинета Министров СССР"
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