Ministry of the Maritime Fleet

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

The Merchant Maritime Fleet of the USSR is abbreviated Morflot. All Soviet merchant fleet organizations and establishments were subordinate to the Ministry of the Maritime Fleet, abbreviated Minmorflot.

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

The structure of the People's Commissariat of Maritime Fleet as a separate people's commissariat was confirmed by a decree of the Council of Ministers on 25 May 1939. On 15 March 1946, the People's Commissariat of the Maritime Fleet was renamed the Ministry of the Maritime Fleet by decree of the Supreme Soviet, along with all the other people's commissariats, which also became ministries.

On March 15, 1953, Minmorflot was united with the Ministry of the River Fleet, becoming the Ministry of the Maritime and River Fleet.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council dated August 25, 1954, the Ministry of Maritime and River Fleet was re-established on August 25, 1954, when the Ministry of Maritime Fleet and Ministry of River Fleet was redivided.

Minmorflot was liquidated on December 26, 1991 due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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

The following establishments were subordinated to Minmorflot in from 1970-1991:

The merchant marine was divided into shipping companies and sea routes. The following subordinate shipping companies to Minmorflot from 1960–1991:
 * Sovfraht (Совфрахт, Soviet shipping agency)
 * Register of the USSR, today Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
 * Maritime Container Service (МРФ).
 * Merchant Maritime Transport, abbreviated as Torgmortrans (TMT, Russian: Торговый морской транспорт, Торгмортранс).
 * Baltic Sea Shipping Company, Leningrad
 * Estonian Shipping Company, Tallinn
 * Latvian Shipping Company, Riga
 * Lithuanian Shipping Company, Klaypeda
 * Black Sea Shipping Company, Odessa
 * Azov Shipping Company, Mariupol
 * Novorossiysk Shipping Company, Novorossiysk
 * Georgian Shipping Company, Batumi
 * Soviet Dunaj Shipping Company or Dunaj-Sea Shipping Company, Izmail
 * Far East Shipping Company, Vladivostok
 * PRISCO, Primorie (Seaside) Shipping Company, Nahodka
 * Sakhalin Shipping Company, Kholmsk
 * Kamchatska Shipping Company, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
 * Murmansk Shipping Company, Murmansk
 * Sevmorput (Севморпуть), the organisation controlling the Arctic Northeast Passage Sea route.
 * SVUMF (СВУМФ), the North-Eastern Directorate of the Maritime Fleet.
 * Caspian Shipping Company, Baku
 * Central Asian Shipping Company (Aral Sea)

Each Soviet seaport was 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: