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USSR State Bank
central bank
DOSAAF
DOSAAF (), full name Volunteer Society for the Assistance to the Army, Aviation, and Navy (), was a paramilitary sport organization in the Soviet Union that was concerned mainly with weapons, automobiles and aviation. The society was established in 1927 as OSOAVIAKhIM and from 1951 to 1991 carried the name of DOSAAF.
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
Soviet organization aiming to influence international public opinion in support of the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany; purged in 1952 by Stalin
Rabkrin
The '''People's Commissariat of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection, also known as Rabkrin''' (; РКИ, RKI; Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate, WPI), was a governmental establishment in the Soviet Union of ministerial level (people's commissariat) that was responsible for scrutinizing the state, local and enterprise administrations.
Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
thumb|right|Logo of the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, prominently featuring the acronym VOKS in both Cyrillic and Latin characters. VOKS (an acronym for the Russian ''Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo Kul'turnoi Sviazi s zagranitsei'' — Всесоюзное общество культурной связи с заграницей, All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries), or the Society of Cultural Relations with the Soviet Union, was an entity created by the government of the Soviet Union (USSR) in 1925 to promote international cultural contact between writers, composers, musicians, cinem
Extraordinary State Commission
Soviet government agency tasked with investigating World War II crimes against the Soviet Union
Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan
organization of Muslims of the five Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union
Volga German Autonomous Region
autonomous Region within the RSFSR (1918-1923)
People's Control Commission
semi-civic, semi-governmental organisation in the Soviet Union with the purpose of putting under scrutiny the activities of government, local administrations and enterprises
Komzet
300px|thumb|Threshing in the fields in a Jewish kolkhoz, c. 1930 Komzet (, ) was the Committee for the Settlement of Toiling Jews on the Land (some English sources use the word "working" instead of "toiling") in the Soviet Union. The primary goal of the Komzet was to provide work for the unemployed agricultural Jewish population of the country.
Pomgol
thumb|right|A 1921 Pomgol stamp thumb|right|A bogus Pomgol stamp created by Marco Fontana (Italy) Pomgol () was the name of two organizations created in the Russian SFSR during the Russian famine of 1921. The name is an abbreviation of the Russian term "Помощь голодающим" or "Relief for Starving".
Russian Soviet Government Bureau
unofficial representation office of Soviet Russia to the U.S. during the Russian Civil War