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Gosbank (Шаблон:Lang-ru, Gosudarstvenny bank SSSR—the State Bank of the USSR) was the central bank of the Soviet Union and the only bank in the entire country from 1922 to 1991. Gosbank was one of the three Soviet economic authorities, the other two being "Gosplan" (the State Planning Committee) and "Gossnab" (the State Committee for Material Technical Supply). The Gosbank closely collaborated with the Soviet Ministry of Finance to prepare the national state budget.

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Exchange rate between the Soviet ruble and major world currencies, February 1985

Foundation

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The foundation of the bank was part of the implementation of the New Economic Policy. On 3 October 1921, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK), passed a resolution for the founding of the State Bank of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. This was followed by a similar resolution passed by Sovnarkom on 10 October 1921. It began operations on 16 November 1921. In February 1922 Lenin described the State Bank as "a bureaucratic paper game", comparing it to a Potemkin village in a letter to Aron Sheinman whom he accused of "Communist-mandarin childishness".[1] In 1923 it was transformed into the State Bank of the USSR. It was placed under the jurisdiction of Narkomfin.[2] The Soviet state used Gosbank, primarily, as a tool to impose centralized control upon industry in general, using bank balances and transaction histories to monitor the activity of individual concerns and their compliance with five-year plans and directives. Gosbank did not act as a commercial bank in regard to the profit motive. It acted, theoretically, as an instrument of government policy. Instead of independently and impartially assessing the creditworthiness of the borrower, Gosbank would provide loan funds to favored individuals, groups and industries as directed by the central government.[3]

In 1931 Boris Berlatsky, a senior official of the State Bank was put on trial for wrecking as part of the 1931 Menshevik Trial.[4]

Daughters or "bins of the motherland"

Beginning in 1921 in Paris and prior to his death, Leonid Krasin created the first state controlled Soviet overseas bank. It was one of five "daughter" (Шаблон:Lang-ru) banks or "motherland bins" or "bins of the motherland" (Шаблон:Lang-ru) which were established in Paris (1921) as the Commercial Bank for Northern Europe (Шаблон:Lang-fr) BCEN-Eurobank, in London as part of the Moscow Narodny Bank, in Vienna (1974) as the Donau Bank AG, in Frankfurt am Main as the Ost-West Handelsbank (OWH), and in Luxembourg (1974) as the East-West United Bank. In order to financially assist Communist Parties, anti-imperialism, and pro national liberation movements worldwide, these banks acted as subsidiaries or "daughters" to the "mother" bank or Gosbank, which was the central bank of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russia) from 1921-1922 and the Soviet Union from 1923-1991.[5][6][7]Шаблон:EfnШаблон:Efn

In 1992 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Paris-based subsidiary bank BCEN-Eurobank had bad loans with Cuba, Morocco, and Mauritania and received a "silver plater" infusion of capital from Gosbank through a "participatory credit" (Шаблон:Lang-ru) of $1080.2 billion in various currencies.[5]Шаблон:Efn

The former Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) funds flowed through these daughter banks to overseas locations during the 1990s looting of Russia.[5]

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, these daughter banks were absorbed into the VTB network and are very closely associated with the Bank of Russia (Шаблон:Lang-ru) which was the successor to Gosbank.[5][8]

Perestroika

As part of Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika program, other banks were formed, including; "Promstroybank" (USSR Bank of Industrial Construction), "Zhilstoybank" (USSR Bank of Residential Construction), "Agrobank" (USSR Agricultural Bank), "Vneshekonombank" (USSR Internal Trade Bank), and "Sberbank" (USSR Savings Bank). "Sberbank" continues to this day as one of Russia's largest banks, retaining senior ex-Gosbank personnel and most of the present Russian government's banking business.

Senior executives

This is the list of the Chairmen of the Board of the State Bank.[2][9]

The Chairman was appointed by the Premier of the Soviet Union.

Name (governor) Photo Term of office Appointed by
Start of term End of term
1 Aron Sheinman[2] Файл:No-nb bldsa 2c021 Aron Sheinman.jpg 1921 1924 Vladimir Lenin
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2 Nikolai Tumanov Файл:Coat of arms of the Soviet Union 1.svg March 5, 1924 January 16, 1926 Alexei Rykov
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3 Georgy Pyatakov Файл:Pyatakov GL.jpg April 19, 1929 October 18, 1930
4 Moissei Kalmanovich Файл:No-nb bldsa q1c010.jpg October 18, 1930 April 4, 1934 Vyacheslav Molotov
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5 Lev Maryasin Файл:Maryasin lev.webp April 4, 1934 July 14, 1936
6 Solomon Kruglikov Файл:Coat of arms of the Soviet Union 1.svg July 14, 1936 September 15, 1937
7 Alexey Grichmanov Файл:А.П.Гричманов.jpg September 15, 1937 July 16, 1938
8 Nikolai Bulganin October 2, 1938 April 17, 1940
9 Nikolai K. Sokolov Файл:Coat of arms of the Soviet Union 1.svg April 17, 1940 October 12, 1940
10 N. Bulganin Файл:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-29921-0001, Bulganin, Nikolai Alexandrowitsch (cropped).jpg October 12, 1940 May 23, 1945 Joseph Stalin
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11 Yakov Golev Файл:Coat of arms of the Soviet Union 1.svg May 23, 1945 March 23, 1948
12 Vasily Popov Файл:Coat of arms of the Soviet Union 1.svg March 23, 1948 March 31, 1958
13 N. Bulganin Файл:Nikolai Bulganin 1955.jpg March 31, 1958 August 15, 1958 Nikita Khrushchev
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14 Alexander Korovushkin Файл:Coat of arms of the Soviet Union 1.svg August 15, 1958 August 14, 1963
15 Alexey Poskonov Файл:Coat of arms of the Soviet Union 1.svg 1963 1969
16 Miefodiy Svieshnikov Файл:Coat of arms of the Soviet Union 1.svg 1969 1976 Alexei Kosygin
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17 Vladimir Alkhimov Файл:Coat of arms of the Soviet Union 1.svg October 11, 1976 January 10, 1986
18 Viktor Dementsev Файл:Coat of arms of the Soviet Union 1.svg January 10, 1986 August 22, 1987 Nikolai Ryzhkov
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19 Nikolai Garetovsky Файл:Coat of arms of the Soviet Union 1.svg August 22, 1987 June 7, 1989
20 Viktor Gerashchenko Файл:Viktor Gerashchenko3.jpg June 7, 1989 August 26, 1991 Valentin Pavlov
21 Andrei Zverev Файл:Coat of arms of the Soviet Union 1.svg August 26, 1991 December 20, 1991 Ivan Silayev

See also

Notes

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References

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External links

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