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

Maslyukov, who heads the state planning commission Gosplan, said a move to secede would require drawing up a proposal that detailed its implications and then putting it to a popular vote.

From Time Magazine Archive

Transferred to Moscow in 1975 and named First Deputy Minister of Heavy and Transport Engineering, Ryzhkov served as a deputy director of Gosplan, the state planning agency, from 1979 to 1982.

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

Transferred to Moscow's governing bureaucracy in 1975, Ryzhkov served from 1979 to 1982 as first deputy chairman of Gosplan, the state planning agency.

From Time Magazine Archive