| | Federal State Statistics Service - Soviet period of activity of state statistics bodies (1918 - 1991) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | First and uppermost, in the Supreme Council of People's Economy (SCPE), which was created on December 14, 1917, by a Decree of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, as a single general economic centre. |
 | | At the beginning of 1930, the CSB USSR was abolished as a self-sustained narkomat, and its staff and functions were transferred to the Gosplan (State Planning Commission) of the USSR in the framework of which there was set up the Section of Economic Accounting. |
 | | In December 1931 this Section was singled out into an independent unit - the Central Administration of Economic Accounting (CAEA) of the Gosplan of the USSR - with the right of direct entry into the Government. |
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