 April 19, 1945 the State Defense Committee of the USSR issued a decree №8206 ordering the People's Commissar for Armament Boris Vannikov to create a weapons design bureau and a pilot plant for missiles.In accordance with this resolution, in 1945 the state was created Central Design Bureau GTSKB 1 Commissariat ammunition actively engaged in collecting materials for the German rocket technology.During the post-war reorganization of the Soviet economy in early 1946 the People's Commissariat for Armament was transformed into the Ministry of Agricultural Engineering of the USSR.