The Ministry of Timber Industry (Minlesprom; Russian: Министерство лесной промышленности СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union.
The Soviet timber industry has been reorganized repeatedly.
On 5 January 1932, the Administration of Timber and Woodworking Industry was separated from the Supreme Council of the National Economy and reformed as the People's Commissariat of Timber Industry USSR.
According to the Stalin Constitution, the People's Commissariat of Timber Industry USSR was a union-republic commissariat, organized on the production-territorial principle.
[1] On 7 April 1940, the People's Commissariat of Cellulose and Paper Industry USSR was formed, and the appropriate offices and functions transferred to it from the jurisdiction of the People's Commissariat of Timber Industry USSR.