People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR

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The People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR was the top Soviet government post responsible for directing the Red Army and overseeing the military defense policy of the Soviet Union.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cabinet position
defence ministry position
government office
abolished 1946
appliesToJurisdiction Soviet Union
surface form: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
category Defence ministers of the Soviet Union
Soviet government
surface form: Government of the Soviet Union

Military history of the Soviet Union
country Soviet Union
domain military affairs
national security
hasJurisdictionOver Red Army
Soviet Air Forces
Soviet Navy
historicalPeriod Stalin era
inception 1934
languageOfWorkOrName Russian
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
nativeLabel People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR self-linksurface differs
surface form: Народный комиссар обороны СССР
officeHolder Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Dmitry Ustinov
Georgy Zhukov
Joseph Stalin
Kliment Voroshilov
Leon Trotsky
Mikhail Frunze
Nikolai Bulganin
Nikolai Kuznetsov NERFINISHED
Semyon Timoshenko
officeType minister of defence
partOf Council of People's Commissars
surface form: Council of People's Commissars of the USSR
precededBy Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic (as supreme military authority)
rank senior government official
replacedBy People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR self-linksurface differs
surface form: Minister of Defence of the USSR
replaces People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR
responsibleFor military defence policy of the Soviet Union
strategic direction of the Red Army
scopeOfAuthority armed forces command
national defence
seat Moscow
subordinateTo Council of People's Commissars
surface form: Council of People's Commissars of the USSR

State Defence Committee
supervises Soviet High Command
surface form: General Staff of the Red Army

People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR
surface form: People's Commissariat of Defence of the USSR
usedBy Soviet government

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Kliment Voroshilov positionHeld People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR
Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the USSR supervises People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR
this entity surface form: Minister of Defense of the USSR
Dmitry Yazov positionHeld People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR
this entity surface form: Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union
Sergei Kamenev positionHeld People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR
this entity surface form: Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army
Sergei Kamenev militaryRank People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR
this entity surface form: Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army
Rodion Malinovsky positionHeld People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR
this entity surface form: Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union
People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR replacedBy People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Minister of Defence of the USSR
People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR nativeLabel People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Народный комиссар обороны СССР
Main Personnel Directorate subordinateTo People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR
this entity surface form: Minister of Defense of the USSR
Main Engineering Directorate reportedTo People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR
this entity surface form: Minister of Defense of the USSR
Yazov positionHeld People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR
subject surface form: Dmitry Yazov
this entity surface form: Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union
Andrei Grechko positionHeld People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR
this entity surface form: Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union
Deputy People’s Commissar of Defense of the USSR subordinateTo People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR
this entity surface form: People’s Commissar of Defense of the USSR