Goskino USSR is the abbreviated name for the USSR State Committee for Cinematography (Государственный комитет по кинематографии СССР) in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

. It was a central state directory body of the Soviet Cinematography.

History

It was created by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of USSR on March 23, 1963 as the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on Cinematography. From 1965 to 1972 its name was simplified to the Committee on Cinematography of the Council of Ministers. From 1972 to 1978 the committee regained its original name. From 1978, until its disolution in 1991, it was called the State Committee of the USSR on Cinematography.

In 1991 Goskino USSR was abolished by a statement of the State Council USSR of November 14, 1991 (№ ГС-13).

Reanimation

In 1992 there was created the Roskino/Roskomkino that later was renamed into the State Committee of Russian Federation for Cinematography (Государственный комитет Российской Федерации по кинематографии) in the modern Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 as the supreme government organ in charge of the cinematography

Cinematography

Cinematography is the making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography...

. Both performed general management and censorship

Censorship

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 functions. Roskino was disestablished in May 2008, after V.Putin

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when...

's decree N 867.