Central Statistical Directorate

This article is about the Central Statistical Directorate of the Soviet Union. For the Teaching Support Staff Union at Simon Fraser University, see Teaching Support Staff Union.

Tsentrosoyuz building

The Central Statistical Administration (or Board or Directorate) (Template:Lang-ru), abbreviated TsSU (Template:Lang-ru), was the main statistical organization of the former Soviet Union; it was dissolved in the 1980s, replaced by Goskomstat.

It had the following names:

1918-1923 — Central Statistical Administration of the RSFSR (Template:Lang-ru), created by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars dated July 25, 1918

1923-1926 — Central Statistical Administration of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR (Template:Lang-ru)

1926-1930 — Central Statistical Administration of the USSR (Template:Lang-ru)

1930-1931 — Economic-Statistical Sector of Gosplan (Template:Lang-ru)

1931         — Sector of Economic Accounting of Gosplan (Template:Lang-ru)

1931-1941 — Central Administration of Economic Accounting of Gosplan (Template:Lang-ru)

1941-1948 — Central Statistical Administration of Gosplan (Template:Lang-ru)

1948-1987 — Central Statistical Administration of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (Template:Lang-ru)