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{{Short description|Agency in charge of film production in the Soviet Union}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2015}}
{{russianterm
| russian = Госкино<br>(Государственный комитет по кинематографии)
| rusr = Goskino<br>(Gosudarstvenyy komitet po kinematografii)
| literal meaning = State Committee for Cinematography
}}
'''Goskino USSR''' ({{langx|ru|link=Yes|Госкино СССР}}) is the abbreviated name for the '''USSR State Committee for Cinematography''' (Государственный комитет по кинематографии СССР) in the [[Soviet Union]]. It was a central state directory body for Soviet film production.

==History==
The first main film production and distribution organisation in the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic]] until 1924 was Goskino; this was succeeded by [[Sovkino]] from 1924 to 1930, and then replaced with [[Soyuzkino]] in 1930 chaired by [[Martemyan Ryutin]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://culture.gov.ru/upload/mkrf/mkdocs2013/21_01_2013_2.pdf|title=History of the film industry in Russia: management, film production, rental / comp. V. I. Fomin and others – M .: VGIK, 2012. – S. 367-370. – 2759 p}}</ref> which had jurisdiction over the entire [[USSR]] until 1933, when it was then replaced by [[GUKF]] (The Chief Directorate of the Film and Photo Industry, largely headed by [[Boris Shumyatsky]]); which, again, was replaced in 1939 by the [[Central Committee for Cinema Affairs]] until 1946, when it was replaced by the [[Ministry of the Cinema]].

=== The responsible heads of Soviet Cinema:<ref>{{Cite web|title=State and domestic filmmaking.|url=http://www.proficinema.ru/questions-problems/articles/detail.php?ID=144181}}</ref> ===
* 1919–1921 [[Dmitry Leshchenko|Dmitry Ilyich Leshchenko]] (head of the photo-film department of the People's Commissariat for Education) 
* 1921–1922 [[Pyotr Voevodin|Pyotr Ivanovich Voevodin]] (head of the photo-film department of the People's Commissariat for Education) 
* 1922–1923 [[Lev Lieberman|Lev Arkadyevich Lieberman]] (head of the State Committee for Cinematography) 
* 1923–1925 [[Erasmus Kadomtsev|Erasmus Samuilovich Kadomtsev]] (chairman of the Board of the State Film Agency) 
* 1925–1927 [[Stefan Bala-Dobrov|Stefan Alekseevich Bala-Dobrov]] (director of the State Film Agency) 
* 1926–1929 [[Konstantin Shvedchikov|Konstantin Matveyevich Shvedchikov]] (chairman of the Board of Sovkino) 
* 1929–1930 [[Jānis Rudzutaks|Jan Ernestovich Rudzutak]] (Chairman of the Film Committee)
* 1930–1930 [[Martemyan Ryutin|Martemyan Nikitich Ryutin]] (chairman of the Board of Soyuzkino)
* 1930–1938 [[Boris Shumyatsky|Boris Zakharovich Shumyatsky]]
* 1938–1939 [[Semyon Dukelsky|Semyon Semyonovich Dukelsky]]
* 1939–1953 [[Ivan Bolshakov|Ivan Grigorievich Bolshakov]]

== Goskino ==
Subsequently, in 1963 Goskino USSR was created by the decree of the Presidium of the [[Supreme Soviet of USSR]] on March 23, 1963, as the State Committee of the [[Council of Ministers (Soviet Union)|Council of Ministers of the USSR]] on Cinematography.<ref>[http://www.russiancinema.ru/template.php?dept_id=3&e_dept_id=3&e_orgdept_id=2&e_org_id=7 Encyclopedia of the Homeland Cinema] {{in lang|ru}}</ref> From 1965 to 1972, its name was simplified to the Committee on Cinematography of the Council of Ministers. From 1972 to 1978, the committee regained its original name. From 1978, until its dissolution in 1991, it was called the State Committee of the USSR on Cinematography.

In 1991 Goskino USSR was abolished by a statement of the State Council USSR of November 14, 1991 (No. ГС-13).<ref>[http://www.russiancinema.ru/template.php?dept_id=3&e_dept_id=3&e_orgdept_id=2&e_org_id=7 Encyclopedia of the Homeland Cinema] {{in lang|ru}}</ref>

== Presidents of Goskino ==

* 1963–1972 [[:ru:Романов, Алексей Владимирович|Alexei Romanov]]<ref name="birb2">{{cite book|author=Birgit Beumers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5T0UMRZ_Ro0C&pg=PA20|title=Directory of World Cinema: Russia|publisher=Intellect Books|year=2011|isbn=978-1-84150-372-1|page=20|access-date=2 February 2017}}</ref>
* 1972–1986 [[Fililp Ermash]]
* 1986–1991 [[Aleksandr Kamshalov]]

==Reanimation==
In 1992 the [[Roskomkino|Roskino/Roskomkino]]<ref>[http://www.russiancinema.ru/template.php?dept_id=3&e_dept_id=3&e_orgdept_id=2&e_org_id=86 Encyclopedia of the Homeland Cinema] {{in lang|ru}}</ref> was created, which was later renamed the State Committee of the Russian Federation for Cinematography (Государственный комитет Российской Федерации по кинематографии) in modern Russia as the supreme government organ in charge of [[filmmaking]].<ref>http://www.panorama.ru/prav/goskino.shtml (Russian)</ref> Both performed general management and censorship functions. [[Roskomkino|Roskino]] was disestablished in May 2008, after [[Vladimir Putin]]'s decree N 867.<ref>[http://www.mnogozakonov.ru/catalog/date/2000/5/17/16328/ President of Russian Federation. Order (Указ) May 17, 2000, N 867]</ref>

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==References==
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