Ministry of the Maritime Fleet

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. 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. from the Soviet Union 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: Ministers of Minmorflot from August, 1954 to December, 1991: ==References==