Formed 8 November 1917 | Dissolved 15 November 1991 | |
Superseding agency Ministry of Economics and Finance of the Russian Federation (1991), Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation (1992) Jurisdiction Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Headquarters Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union | ||
Ministry of Finance of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian: Министерство финансов РСФСР), known prior to 1946 as the People's Commissariat for Finance (Russian: Народный комиссариат финансов), or shorten to Narkomfin was part of the government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1918 to the collapse of the USSR in 1991. It was subordinate to the 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, 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
In 1946, the People's Commissariat for Finance was transformed, 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 of the USSR, the Gosbank and Vnesheconombank. These Soviet institutions could not carry out any orders without the consent of the RSFSR Ministry of Finance. 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. The RSFSR Ministry of Finance was succeeded by the Ministry of Economics and Finance of the Russian Federation (1991), and the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation (1992).