The Military-Industrial Commission of the USSR or VPK served as a central management body for the Soviet defence industry from 1957 to 1991. The VPK was a Commission of the Presidium of of the Council of Ministers, and a deputy chairman of the Council headed it. The Soviet VPK's primary function was to facilitate plan fulfillment by easing bottlenecks, enforcing inter-ministerial cooperation, and overseeing the availability of resources.

Chairmen of the VPK

• 1957-63 Dmitri Feodorovich Ustinov
  Dmitriy Ustinov
  Dmitriy Feodorovich Ustinov was Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death.-Early life:Dimitry Feodorovich Ustinov was born in a working-class family in Samara. During the civil war, when hunger became intolerable, his sick father went to Samarkand, leaving Dimitry as head...
  
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• 1963-85 Leonid Vasil’evich Smirnov
  Leonid Smirnov (politician)
  Leonid Vasil’evich Smirnov was director of the the missile factory at Dnepropetrovsk in the late 1950s, developing strategic missiles for the defence of the USSR...
  
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• 1985-91 Yuri Dmitriyevich Maslyukov
  Yuri Maslyukov
  Yuri Dmitriyevich Maslyukov was a Russian politician who was in charge of the Gosplan for three years preceding the demise of the Soviet Union.-Early life:...
  
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