Administrator of Affairs of the Soviet Union

The Administrator of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union and Council of Labour and Defense (Управляющие делами Совета Народных Комиссаров Союза ССР и Совета Труда и Обороны), or Secretary to the Premier, was a high-standing officer within the Soviet Government whose main task was to co-sign,  with the Premier of the Soviet Union, decrees and resolutions made by the All-Union government. The government apparatus (office of government affairs, Управление Делами Совета Народных Комиссаров Союза ССР) prepared items of policy, which the office holder would check systematically against decrees of the Party-Government. This function consisted of several departments and other structural units. The Soviet government apparatus was headed by the Administrator of Affairs who, in accordance with the established order, was a member of the federal government body.