[1] Early Soviet predecessor-organisations included the Main Fuel Administration (Russian: Главное топливное управление («Главтоп»), romanized: Glavnoe toplivoe upravlenie - Glavtop), founded in 1918.
A ukase of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on 24 January 1939 established the all-union People's Commissariat of Fuel Industry, which included the coal, shale and petroleum industries.
A ukase of 12 October 1939 subdivided the all-union People's Commissariat of Fuel Industry into the all-union People's Commissariat of the Coal Industry USSR and the all-union People's Commissariat of Petroleum Industry USSR.
[1] The all-union People's Commissariat of the Coal Industry USSR was split by a 19 January 1946 ukase into the all-union People's Commissariat of the Coal Industry of Western Regions USSR and the all-union People's Commissariat of the Coal industry of Eastern Regions USSR.
A ukase of 28 January 1946 established the People's Commissariat for Construction of Fuel Enterprises USSR.