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Gosstandart (Russian:Госстандарт) was theSoviet government agency responsible for standardization, metrology, and quality management. The name is an abbreviation forGosudarstvennyy standart (‘State Standard’).

Established in 1925, as a committee for standardization within theUSSR Council of Labor and Defence,Gosstandart was at first put in charge of inspecting measuring instruments used in industrial and agricultural production and later was tasked with developing, updating, and disseminatingGOST standards.

Over the course of its existence, the agency was reformed a number of times, receiving a new name with each transformation: theNational Committee for Standardization; theCommittee for Standards, Metrology, and Measuring Instruments; theState Committee for Standards; theState Committee for Standards and Product Quality Management. The agency received its nickname,Gosstandart, in 1970.

After the dissolution of the USSR, theRussian government mergedGosstandart withGosstandart Rossii. The current iteration of the agency inRussia isRosstandart. In Ukraine, Gosstandart becameDerzhstandart, an abbreviation forDerzhavnyy standart.

• 1925–1927Valerian Kuibyshev (Chairman of the Committee for Standardization under the Council of Labor and Defense)
• 1927Gleb Krzhizhanovsky (Chairman of the Council for Standardization under the Council of Labor and Defense)
• 1928–1932Friedrich Lengnik (Chairman of the All-Union Committee for Standardization under the Council of Labor and Defense)
• 1932–1936Aleksei Gastev (Chairman of the All-Union Committee for Standardization under the Council of Labor and Defense)
• 1940–1942 Pavel Zernov (Chairman of the All-Union Committee for Standardization under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR)
• 1943–1946Vasily Emelyanov (Chairman of the All-Union Committee for Standardization under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR)
• 1954–1963 Andrey Vyatkin (Chairman of the Committee of Standards, Measures and Measuring Instruments under the Council of Ministers of the USSR)
• 1963–1984 Vasily Boytsov (Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Standards)
• 1984–1989 Georgy Kolmogorov (Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Standards)
• 1989–1992 Valery Sychev (Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Product Quality Management and Standardization, and then of the Committee for Standardization and Metrology under the USSR Cabinet of Ministers)

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• Economy of the Soviet Union
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• 1925 establishments in the Soviet Union
• 1991 disestablishments in the Soviet Union

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