Until the reorganization begun by Nikolai Yezhov with a purge of the regional political police in the autumn of 1936 and formalized by a May 1939 directive of the All-Union NKVD by which all appointments to the local political police were controlled from the center, there was frequent tension between centralized control of local units and the collusion of those units with local and regional party elements, frequently resulting in the thwarting of Moscow's plans.

The First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union in 1926 recorded 114, 831 Leningrad Finns, as Ingrian Finns were called.

These lowly social origins were widely publicized in the official press, which habitually referred to Kalinin as the " All-Union headman " ( Всесоюзный староста ) — a term hearkening to the village commune — in conjunction with his role as titular head of state.

These were: School, District ( Raion ), City, Regional ( Oblast ), Republican and All-Union contests.

Its winners were admitted to the Republican round of the All-Union Physics and Mathematics Olympiads.

In maths, there were contests organized for cities to compete for Republican and All-Union honors.

They were joined by the winners of the Kvant magazine competition and of the republican and All-Union olympiads of the previous year.

So, there were University, Republican and All-Union rounds.

Of these seats, 100 were allocated to the CPSU, 100 to the All-Union Central Council of Trade Union, 75 to the Communist Youth Union ( Komsomol ), 75 to the Soviet Women's Committee, 75 to the War and Labour Veterans ' Organization, and 325 to other organizations such as the Academy of Sciences.

The main Young Pioneer camps of the Soviet Union were All-Union Young Pioneer camp Artek ( near Gurzuf ), republican camps: Orlyonok ( near Tuapse, Russian SFSR, opened in 1960 ), Okean ( near Vladivostok, Russian SFSR, opened in 1983 ) Molodaya Gvardiya ( near Odessa, Ukrainian SSR ) and Zubryonok ( in Minsk Oblast, Byelorussian SSR ).

All organisations were obligated to follow the decrees and resolutions issued by the All-Union Council of Ministers.

There delegates to the 19th All-Union Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were instructed about Sąjūdis goals.

The first post-Soviet Ukrainian Census was carried out by State Statistics Committee of Ukraine in 2001, 12 years after the last All-Union census in 1989.

In the USSR, RCA-manufactured radio equipment was introduced on a large scale by Joseph Stalin to construct broadcast networks, and the newly formed All-Union Scientific Research Institute for Television was gearing up a research program in vacuum tubes that was advanced for its time and place.

During 1922, with the unification of the USSR, it was reformed into an all-union agency, the youth division of the All-Union Communist Party.

He was a member of the USSR Central Executive Committee, President of All-Union Geographical Society and a recipient of the Lenin Prize.

Its work was coordinated with the USSR Central Statistical Directorate (), the Narkomat of Finance, and the All-Union Council of State Economy (), and later with Gosbank and Gossnab.

Initially TV was governed by the All-Union Committee for Radiofication and Radio Broadcasting at the USSR Sovnarkom ( Всесоюзный комитет по радиофикации и радиовещанию при СНК СССР ).

A precursor of later abuses in psychiatry in the Soviet Union was the so-called " Joint Session " of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences and the Board of the All-Union Neurologic and Psychiatric Association in October 1951.

After the joint session of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences on 28 June — 4 July 1950 and during the session of the Presidium of the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Board of the All-Union Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists on 11 – 15 October 1951, the leading role was given to Snezhnevky's school.

It was established in 1987 under the decree issued by VCSPS ( All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions ) and USSR State Committee of Labor as All-Union Public Opinion Research Center ( in 1992 renamed as – Russian Public Opinion Research Center ).

In 1938, it was recognized as an official sport by the USSR All-Union Sports Committee.

The organization of it was in accordance with the Declaration of the All-Union Council of Fitness Culture of USSR on December 27, 1934.

On January 9 – 10 the All-Union football conference took place in Moscow that decided to simplify the Union of football leagues of USSR and replace it with a some sort of committee.

It was established in 1964 as the " All-Union Gramophone Record Firm of the USSR Ministry of Culture Melodiya ".

Three years later, he won third prize in the 1936 USSR All-Union Junior Championship, held in Leningrad.

In the 1960s Arkalyk was declared the All-Union shock Komsomol building, there was the young people flock from all over the USSR.

On December 27, 1934 the All-Union Council of Physical Culture ( VSFK ) of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union ( TsIK USSR ) established a special public organization the Football Section of USSR in charge of football events in the country.

* Spartak ( sports society ) ( Спартак ), the first and the largest All-Union Voluntary Sports Society of the USSR

On November 14 – 17, 1935, the 1st All-Union Stakhanovite Conference took place at the Kremlin, which emphasized the outstanding role of the Stakhanovite movement in socialist re-construction of national economy.

The club was then part of one of the leading sport societies in Soviet Union, the All-Union Dynamo sports society which had several other divisions beside football and was sponsored by the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On 18 January 1983, the Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ), Gorald Gorinovich, delivered a message from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in which it said that the abnormal situation which had developed within the World Psychiatric Association put in effect its whole activity in question and that for this reason, All-Union Society took the decision to withdraw from the WPA.

In 1989, the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia ( IPA ) was created as an association publicly opposing itself to official Soviet psychiatry and its offspring, the All-Union Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists, which was completely under the control of the Soviet government and implemented its political principles.

In 1974, she came in 3rd place in the All-Union competition of musicians, which was somewhat of a disappointment for her.

Under Stalin, thanks to the influence of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko ( Director of the Soviet Lenin All-Union Institute of Agricultural Sciences ), Mendelian genetics was officially rejected in favour of Lysenkoism, which was derived from the Lamarkian beliefs of horticulturist Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin.

In June 1932, he wrote a pamphlet entitled " Appeal to All Members of the All-Union Communist Party ( bolsheviks )" and a nearly 200-page document entitled " Stalin and the Crisis of the Proletarian Dictatorship ," which is more commonly known as Ryutin's Platform.

Leonid Brezhnev again recreated the All-Union Ministry for Securing the Public Order in July 1966 and later assigned Nikolay Shchyolokov as Minister ; the RSFSR Ministry was disbanded for the second time, the first being at the creation of the NKVD of the Soviet Union.

Throughout his career Luria worked in a wide range of scientific fields at such institutions as the Academy of Communist Education ( 1920-1930s ), Experimental Defectological Institute ( 1920-1930s, 1950-1960s, both in Moscow ), Ukrainian Psychoneurological Academy ( Kharkiv, early 1930s ), All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine, Burdenko Institute of Neurosurgery ( late 1930s ), and other institutions.

Depending on the subject and geographical region the highest round of the Olympiads varied from the All-Union level in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry to the Regional level in some other disciplines.

All other national television channels ( the All-Union, Moscow, and Fourth Programmes ) used the " Double program " composite time-shifting format.

After years in local politics, he rose to prominence as Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, but he also held other lesser posts such as deputy of the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.

He was also the academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, the president of the Soviet All-Union Botanical Society ( 1973 ) and the International Association for Plant Taxonomy ( 1975 ), member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Literature ( 1971 ), the German Academy of Naturalists " Leopoldina " ( 1972 ) and other scientific societies.

It coordinated and directed the work of the republics and their ministries, state committees and other organs subordinate to the All-Union Council.

The Moscow News has had numerous other owners: Ogonyok, International Book, and the All-Union Society of Cultural Ties with Foreign Countries among others have had a stake in the historic newspaper at one time or another.