The Ministry of Armaments was subordinate to the USSR Council of Ministers and was located on Mayakovskogo Street in Moscow.
[citation needed] It played a leading role in the whole complex of arms which devotes major attention to the head of Lavrenty Beria.
In 1946 the office was renamed the Ministry of Arms of the USSR (Министерство вооружения СССР – МВ).
The ministry was in charge of the production of weapons equipment and ammunition for the USSR Armed Forces; it had under its administration all plants factories and workshops manufacturing any armaments or ammunition, regardless whether this production represented the main or secondary occupation of such plants.
All such plants, even though they were concerned with the production of peacetime goods, were put under the administration of the Ministry of Armaments.