{{short description|Soviet Union government department}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox government agency | agency_name = Ministry of Finance of the RSFSR | nativename = Министерство финансов РСФСР | logo = COA Russian SFSR.svg | logo_size = 150 | logo_caption = [[Emblem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Emblem of the Russian SFSR]] | formed = {{start date and age|df=y|1917|11|8}} | minister1_name = | minister1_pfo = | dissolved = {{start date and age|df=y|1991|11|15}} | superseding = Ministry of Economics and Finance of the [[Russian Federation]] (1991), [[Ministry of Finance (Russia)|Ministry of Finance]] of the Russian Federation (1992) | jurisdiction = [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic]] | headquarters = [[Moscow]], [[RSFSR]], [[Soviet Union]] | employees = | budget = }}
The '''Ministry of Finance of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic''' ({{langx|ru|Министерство финансов РСФСР}}), known prior to 1946 as the '''People's Commissariat for Finance''' ({{langx|ru|Народный комиссариат финансов}}), or shortened to '''Narkomfin''', was part of the government of the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic]] from 1918 until the [[fall of the USSR]] in 1991. It was subordinate to the [[Ministry of Finance (Soviet Union)|Ministry of Finance of the USSR]].
==History== The Narkomfin commissar was part of [[Sovnarkom]]. [[Nikolai Krestinsky]] was the first commissar, appointed in 1918. However, following the introduction of the [[New Economic Policy]], Narkomfin was made responsible for [[Gosbank]],<ref>[http://www.cbr.ru/eng/today/history/gosbank.asp The State Bank of the USSR] accessed 26 July 2008</ref> the State Bank of the RSFSR and then the [[Soviet Union]]. On 26 November 1921, [[Lenin]] issued a note calling for the appointment of [[Grigory Sokolnikov]], who took control of the organisation in 1922, although his formal position was not ratified until December 1922.<ref>[http://members.optusnet.com.au/spainter/Sokolnikov.html Between right and left: Grigorii Yakovlevich Sokolnikov and the development of the Soviet state, 1921–1929] accessed 26 July 2008</ref>
In 1946, the People's Commissariat for Finance was [[wikt:transform|transformed]] and renamed into the Ministry of Finance of the RSFSR.
After the failed [[August Coup of 1991]], [[Boris Yeltsin]] and the RSFSR Ministry of Finance claimed authority over the [[Ministry of Finance (Soviet Union)|Ministry of Finance of the USSR]], the [[Gosbank]], and [[Vnesheconombank (USSR)|Vnesheconombank]]. These Soviet institutions could not carry out any orders without the consent of the RSFSR Ministry of Finance.{{sfn|Huskey|1992|p=131}} The Ministry of Finance of the USSR continued functioning until the Ministry of Finance of the RSFSR issued a decree completing its takeover of the Soviet financial system.{{sfn|Huskey|1992|p=136}} The RSFSR Ministry of Finance was succeeded by the Ministry of Economics and Finance of the [[Russian Federation]] (1991), and the [[Ministry of Finance (Russia)|Ministry of Finance]] of the Russian Federation (1992).<ref name="libr" />
==Commissars and ministers== {| class="wikitable" ! Name !! Took office !! Left office |- ! colspan="4" | People's Commissar for Finance of the RSFSR |- | [[Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov]] | 27 October 1917 | 30 October 1917 |- | [[Vyacheslav Menzhinsky]] | 30 October 1917 | 21 March 1918 |- | [[Isidore Gukovsky]] | 21 March 1918 | 16 August 1918 |- | [[Nikolay Krestinsky]] | 16 August 1918 | 22 November 1922 |- | [[Grigori Sokolnikov]] | 22 November 1922 | 6 July 1923 |- | [[Miron Vladimirov]] | 6 July 1923 | November 1924 |- | [[Nikolay Alexandrovich Milyutin|Nikolay Milyutin]] | December 1924 | December 1929 |- | [[Varvara Yakovleva (politician)|Varvara Yakovleva]] | January 1930 | September 1937 |- | Nikolai Sokolov<ref>{{cite web|title=Russia: Commissaresses |url=https://time.com/archive/6757729/russia-commissaresses/ |website=time.com |date=29 November 1937 |access-date=9 July 2025}}</ref> | September 1937 | February 1938 |- | [[Vasili Popov (politician)|Vasily Popov]]<!-- Василий Фёдорович Попов --> | February 1938 | 20 April 1939 |- | [[Mikhail Umnov]] | 21 April 1939 | September 1939 |- | [[Arseny Safronov]] | October 1939 | 28 March 1941 |- | [[Alexei Poskonov]] | 28 March 1941 | 18 July 1945 |- | [[Arseny Safronov]] | 18 July 1945 | 23 March 1946 |- ! colspan="4" | Minister of Finance of the RSFSR |- | [[Arseny Safronov]] | 23 March 1946 | July 1949 |- | [[Ivan Fadeev]] | September 1949 | March 1973 |- | [[Andrei Bobrovnikov]] | March 1973 | 10 May 1990 |- | [[Boris Fyodorov]] | 18 July 1990 | 5 December 1990 |- | [[Igor Lazarev (politician)|Igor Lazarev]] | 5 December 1990 | 11 November 1991 |}
== See also == * [[Government of the Soviet Union]] – [[Ministries of the Soviet Union|Ministries]] ** [[Ministry of Finance (Soviet Union)|Ministry of Finance of the USSR]]
==References== '''Notes''' <references>
<ref name="libr"> {{cite book|editor-first=V.I.|editor-last=Ivkin|script-title=ru:Государственная власть СССР. Высшие органы власти и управления и их руководители. 1923—1991 гг. Историко-биографический справочник|trans-title=State Power of the USSR. Supreme Organs of Power and Administration, and Their Heads. 1923–1991. Historical and Biographical Handbook|url=http://www.az-libr.ru/Persons/000/Src/0000/index.shtml|access-date=29 September 2010|year=1999|publisher=Russian Political Encyclopedia (ROSSPEN)|location=Moscow|language=ru|isbn=5-8243-0014-3|pages=639 }} </ref>
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'''Bibliography''' * {{cite book | last = Huskey | first = Eugene | title = Executive power and Soviet politics: the rise and decline of the Soviet state | publisher = M.E. Sharpe | year = 1992 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mKcazy5JDCgC&dq | isbn = 978-1-56324-059-1 | pages = 281 }}
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