Gosplan

American  

[gos-plahn] / gɒsˈplɑn /

noun

1. the official planning organization, which drew up projects embracing trade and industry, agriculture, education, and public health.

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Gosplan British  

/ ˈɡɒsˌplæn /

noun

1. the state planning commission of the former Soviet Union or any of its constituent republics: it was responsible for coordination and development of the economy, social services, etc

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Etymology

Origin of Gosplan

< Russian Gosplán, for Gosudárstvennaya plánovaya komíssiya State Planning Commission

Example Sentences

In the late 1960s, he married into a well-connected family, became a protege of powerful Communist Party leaders and began advancing at the powerful state planning agency Gosplan.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2016

For Gosplan there exist no authorities, no General Secretaries, no Central Committees.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gosplan, the state planning committee of the U.S.S.R., reproduces many of its official documents on Xerox machines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Author of the plan was Gosplan Chairman Valerian Kuybyshev, onetime chairman of the Supreme Eco-omic Council, who looks like an Italian tenor.

From Time Magazine Archive

To make the opening speech Russia's cloistered priesthood of planners, the Gosplan, sent their economic abbot, Comrade Valerian Ivanovich Mezhlauk, chairman of the State Planning Commission.

From Time Magazine Archive