Information About

Vesenkha




The Vesenkha was formed in 1917 and dissolved in 1932 . Its purpose was to supervise and control the newly Nationalised industries. It had rights of Confiscation and Expropriation .

In each of the ). The all-union council could be referred to as ''ВСНХ СССР'' (VSNKh SSSR). In general, the republican VSNKhs had control over small scale, minor industries which used local materials and supplied local markets. Any large scale industrial enterprise was controlled by one of the industrial sector departments of the all-union VSNKh.


ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE


Within the VSNKh, departments were split into two types.


Functional sector departments


Departments within the functional sector dealt with decisions relating to Finance , Planning , economic policy, and Research And Development .


Industrial sector departments


Departments of this type were created by decree in 1926 and consisted of "chief departments", known as ''glavki'' (''glavnye upravlenija'').

Heads of all the departments in this sector formed the council of the all-union ''VSNKh'' together with representatives from the union republics.


HEADS OF THE VSNKH