The Ministry of Finance of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: Министерство финансов СССР) formed on 15 March 1946 was one of the most important government offices in the Soviet Union. Until 1946 it was known as the People’s Commissariat for Finance (Russian: Народный комиссариат финансов – Narodnyi komissariat finansov or Narkomfin).