Ministry of the Maritime Fleet

The Ministry of the Maritime Fleet (Minmorflot; Министерство морского флота СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union.

Merchant Maritime Fleet of the USSR has abbreviation Morflot. All Soviet merchant fleet organizations and establishments obey to Ministry of the Maritime Fleet. It is why Ministry of the Maritime Fleet has abbreviation Mimmorflot. Population of the Soviet Union and Soviet press often used abovementioned abbreviations. Populations and press of post-Soviet countries still use this abbreviations too.

Morflot of the USSR has history from 1922 to 1991 as Soviet Union was declared on December 29, 1922 and was collapsed in 1991. But Minforflot has more short history.

History
Until 25 May 1939, functions of the Ministry of Maritime Fleet USSR were carried out by the People's Commissariat of Water Transport of the USSR, which was responsible for both maritime and river fleets of the USSR.

The structure of the People's Commissariat of Maritime Fleet USSR as a separate people's commissariat was confirmed by a decree of the Council of Ministers USSR on 25 May 1939. On 15 March 1946, the People's Commissariat of Maritime Fleet USSR was changed to the Ministry of Maritime Fleet USSR by decree of the Supreme Soviet, at the time that all people's commissariats were changed to ministries.

March 15, 1953 Minmorflot was united with Ministry of River Fleet of the USSR in one Ministry: Ministry of Maritime and River Fleet of the USSR.

As per Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR dated August 25, 1954, The Ministry of Maritime and River Fleet of the USSR was re-established on August 25, 1954, when the Ministry of Maritime Fleet and Ministry of River Fleet of the USSR was divided again.

Minmorflot was liquidated on December 26, 1991 in connection with the termination of the existence of the USSR.

Subordinate organizations and establishments
Ministry of the Maritime Fleet of the USSR is the head organization of Morflot. The main office of Ministry of the Maritime Fleet of the USSR was in Moscow.

Following subordinate establishments obeyed to Minmorflot in 1970–1991 years, their emblems mentioned on the picture also:
 * 1) Sovfraht
 * 2) Register of the USSR, today Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
 * 3) МРФ. It is like Russian abbreviation of Maritime Container Service (MCS).
 * 4) Merchant Maritime Transport of the USSR which had shortage TMT (Russian: Торговый морской транспорт). All Merchant Maritime divided to shipping companies and Sea routes as per down mentioned list of subordinate organizations.

Following subordinate organizations and establishments obeyed to Minmorflot in 1960–1991 years, their emblems mentioned on the picture also:
 * 1) Baltic Sea Shipping Company, main office was in Leningrad
 * 2) Estonian Shipping Company, main office was in Tallinn
 * 3) Latvian Shipping Company, main office in Riga
 * 4) Lituanian Shipping Company, main office in Klaypeda
 * 5) Black Sea Shipping Company, main office was in Odessa
 * 6) Azov Shipping Company, main office was in Mariupol
 * 7) Novorossiysk Shipping Company, main office was in Novorossiysk
 * 8) Georgian Shipping Company, main office was in Batumi
 * 9) Soviet Dunaj Shipping Company or Dunaj-Sea Shipping Company, main office was in Izmail
 * 10) Far East Shipping Company, main office was in Vladivostok
 * 11) PRISCO is abbreviation of Primorie (Seaside) Shipping Company, main office in Nahodka
 * 12) Sakhalin Shipping Company, main office was in Kholmsk
 * 13) Kamchatska Shipping Company, main office was in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
 * 14) Murmansk Shipping Company, main office in Murmansk
 * 15) Sevmorput (Севморпуть), the organisation to control the navigation with the Arctic Northeast Passage Sea rote.
 * 16) SVUMF (СВУМФ), it is abbreviation of the North-Eastern Directorate of the Maritime Fleet.
 * 17) Kaspian Shipping Company, main office in Baku
 * 18) Middle-Asian Shipping company (Aral Sea), main office in

Each Soviet sea ports was a part of the closest shipping company.

List of Ministers
Ministers of Minmorflot from March 1946 to March 1953:

Ministers of Minmorflot from August, 1954 to December, 1991: