People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs of the USSR
| Народный комиссариат почт и телеграфов СССР (НКПТ, НКПиТ, Наркомпочтель СССР) |
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Official emblem of the Commissariat
on a telephone hatch in Kharkov |
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| Formed | 12 November 1923 |
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| Dissolved | 17 January 1932 |
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| Jurisdiction | Council of People's Commissars |
| Headquarters | 7 Gorky Street, Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union 55°45′26″N 37°36′53″E / 55.75722°N 37.61472°E |
| Annual budget | varied |
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| Child agency |
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People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs of the USSR was the central organ of the Soviet Union government that was in charge of the organisation and administration of the different forms of communication including posts. It existed between 1923 and 1932.
In 1922, the Soviet Union was formed. Its founding document stated that, among different areas, "jurisdiction of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as represented by its supreme bodies shall be":
The same document defined that "the Executive Body of the Central Executive Committee of the Union is the Council of People's Commissars of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (CPC Union), elected by the Central Executive Committee of the Union for the term of the latter," and it would comprise the People's Commissar for Posts and Telegraphs. In the Council of People's Commissars of the Union republics, the People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs had "an advisory capacity."
Accordingly, after the formation of the Soviet Union, the People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs of the USSR was created in 1923 instead of the similar agency of the RSFSR. Regulations on the new Commissariat were approved by the USSR Central Executive Committee session on 12 November 1923.
In 1924, the People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs set up a mobile postal service, providing it to rural localities. In 1925, an area inhabited by 68% of the USSR population (27% of the population centres) was covered by home delivery of mail. Regular radio broadcasting started in 1924, with radio broadcast stations being established in 1925 in Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, Nizhny Novgorod, and other cities.
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