Before 1946 it was known as the People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry of the USSR (Народный комиссариат авиационной промышленности CCCP – Наркомавиапром).

4C of the Council of People's Commissars of 21 January 1939, the NCAP took over: In September 1939 the Politburo of the CPSU (b) adopted a resolution on "the reconstruction and building aircraft factories."

On March 15, 1946, the Commissariat was transformed into the Ministry of Aviation Industry of the USSR (Министерство авиационной промышленности СССР).

16 and 22 (architect D. F. Fridman [ru]) built in 1936 for headquarters of the Metrostroy (Russian: Мосметрострой) company.

Since 1939 the headquarters of the People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry (Russian: Народный комиссариат авиационной промышленности (НКАП)) have been placed here.