All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions

The All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions (ACCTU; Russian: Всесоюзный центральный совет профессиональных союзов, VTsSPS) was the national trade union federation of the Soviet Union.

The federation was established in January 1918. In October 1990, it was dissolved, and replaced by the General Confederation of Trade Unions of the USSR.

History

Precursors

In 1905, First All Russian Conference of Trade Unions was held.

In 1906, Second All Russian Conference of Trade Unions was held.

In 1917, Third All-Russian Conference of Trade Unions was held.

In 1918, Fourth All Russian Conference of Trade Unions was held.

The Federation

In 1945, the World Trade Union Conference took place in London, United Kingdom, organised alongside the British Trades Union Congress and the U.S. Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Affiliates

Union	Founded	Left	Reason left
Agricultural and Procurement Workers' Union	1899
Automobile Transport Workers' Union		1957	Merged
Aviation and Defence Industry Workers' Union	1957	1977	Split
Aviation Industry Workers' Union		1957	Merged
Aviation Industry Workers' Union	1977
Aviation Workers' Union
Building and Building Materials Workers' Union	1957
Building Materials Industry Workers' Union		1957	Merged
Chemical Industry Workers' Union		1957	Merged
Coal Mining Industry Workers' Union
Communication, Automobile Transport and Highway Workers' Union	1957
Communications Workers' Union		1957	Merged
Construction Workers' Union	1946	1957	Merged
Consumer Co-operatives Workers' Union		1957	Merged
Consumer Goods Industry Workers' Union		1957	Merged
Cultural Workers' Union
Defence Industry Workers' Union		1957	Merged
Defence Industry Workers' Union	1977
Education, Higher Schools and Scientific Institutions Workers' Union	1957
Engineering Workers' Union
Food Products Industry Workers' Union
Geological Survey Workers' Union
Higher Schools and Scientific Institutions Workers' Union		1957	Merged
Highway and Hydraulic Engineering Workers' Union	1934	1955	Merged
Local Industry and Municipal Services Workers' Union	1957
Local Industry Workers' Union		1957	Merged
Machine Building Industry Workers' Union		1957	Merged
Medical Workers' Union
Metallurgical Industry Workers' Union	1957
Municipal Services Workers' Union		1957	Merged
Oil and Chemical Industry Workers' Union	1957
Oil Industry Workers' Union		1957	Merged
Power Stations and Electrical Industry Workers' Union
Railway Transport Workers' Union
Sea and River Workers' Union
State Institutions Workers' Union
State Trade and Consumer Co-operative Societies Workers' Union	1957
State Trade and Public Catering Enterprise Workers' Union		1957	Merged
Textile and Light Industry Workers' Union	1948	1990	Federation dissolved
Timber and Rafting Workers' Union	1948	1953	Merged
Timber, Paper and Woodworkers' Union	1953
Transport and Heavy Machine Building Workers' Union		1957	Merged
Urban and Rural Construction Workers' Union	1946	1956	Merged
Woodworkers' Union	1948	1953	Merged

Presidents

1918: Grigory Zinoviev

1918: Mikhail Tomsky

1929: Alexander Dogadov

1930: Nikolai Shvernik

1944: Vasili Kuznetsov

1953: Nikolai Shvernik

1956: Viktor Grishin

1967: Alexander Shelepin

1976: Alexei Shibaev

1982: Stepan Shalaev

1990: Gennady Yanayev