Gosstandart (Russian: Госстандарт) was the Soviet government agency responsible for standardization, metrology, and quality management.
The name is an abbreviation for Gosudarstvennyy standart (‘State Standard’).
Established in 1925, as a committee for standardization within the USSR Council of Labor and Defence, Gosstandart was at first put in charge of inspecting measuring instruments used in industrial and agricultural production and later was tasked with developing, updating, and disseminating GOST standards.
The current iteration of the agency in Russia is Rosstandart.
In Ukraine, Gosstandart became Derzhstandart, an abbreviation for Derzhavnyy standart.