The Commissariat of Ferrous Metallurgy was to have under its jurisdiction all plants of the metallurgical industry, plants for high-quality steel and ferroalloys, pipe-rolling and pipe-casting plants, mining enterprises, enterprises of the refractories industry, coke and chemical byproducts plants, and enterprises for the processing and sale of ferrous metal scrap.
[1] By decree of the Supreme Soviet USSR dated 15 March 1946, all people's commissariats were transformed into ministries.
[1] Both of these ministries were united on 29 July 1948, when the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry USSR was formed by ukase of the Presidium, Supreme Soviet USSR.
[1] Ivan Fedorovich Tevosyan was appointed Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy USSR on 28 December 1950.
Anatoliy Nikolayevich Kuzmin was appointed First Deputy Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy on 28 December 1950.