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In order to financially assist Communist Parties, anti-imperialism, and pro national liberation movements worldwide, these banks acted as subsidiaries or "daughters" to the "mother" bank or Gosbank, which was the central bank of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russia) from 1921 to 1922 and the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1991.
The State Bank of the USSR (Russian: Государственный банк СССР, romanized: Gosudarstvennyy bank SSSR), from 1921 to 1923 State Bank of the RSFSR and commonly referred to as Gosbank (Russian: Госбанк), was the central bank and main component of the single-tier banking system of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1991.
With a new statute that enabled the bank to safeguard the state's currency monopoly, the bank began to play an increasingly prominent role in transactions with foreign partners. In the mid-1960s, the focus was on Western European loans for the development of the automotive industry in the Volga region, in cooperation with Italy's Fiat Group.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Promstroybank's operations were reorganized into different entities in the different post-Soviet states, for example Belpromstroybank in Belarus, the Estonian Commercial Bank of Industry and Construction (ETEK), Industriyabank in Georgia, Turan Bank in Kazakhstan, Moldindconbank in Moldova ...
A soviet passbook with the words "savings booklet" in the USSR's 15 official languages. The system of State Labor Savings Banks of the USSR (Russian: Государственные трудовые сберегательные кассы СССР, shorthand Gostrudsberkassy) was the main retail bank of the Soviet Union, which in some respects perpetuated the prior operations of savings banks ...
The Soviet Union played a crucial role in the Allied victory in World War II, but at a tremendous human cost, with millions of Soviet citizens perishing in the conflict. The Soviet Union emerged as one of the world's two superpowers, leading the Eastern Bloc in opposition to the Western Bloc during the Cold War.
The Soviet Union's relatively medium consumer sector accounted for just 60% of the country's GDP in 1990 while the industrial and agricultural sectors contributed 22% and 20% respectively in 1991. Agriculture was the predominant occupation in the Soviet Union before the massive industrialization under Soviet general secretary Joseph Stalin.
The Soviet economic data archive indicates that by 1921, the national monthly inflation rate averaged about 50 per cent and the quantity of currency in the Soviet economy increased by 164.2 times. [6] According to the Soviet Union's 1921 purchasing-power index, 10,000 Soviet sovznaks had the purchasing power of 0.59 1914 chervonets. [7]