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Ministers of the Byelorussian Soviet
Socialist Republic, led the Byelorussian
Republican Organising Committee.
These organising committees were
comprised of top officials of the Republican
and Leningrad City organisations
in charge of sports, construction,
tourism, public catering, commerce,
public order, etc. The organising
committees numbered 24 members
in Leningrad, 43 in Kiev, and 48
in Minsk by the time the Games
started.
In addition, commissions under the
supervision of organising committees,
similar to those in Moscow, were set
up. The members of the organising
committees and of the commissions
were volunteers.
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The Relations
of the OCOG-80 with Other
Bodies
The relationships of the Organising
Committee with ministries, government
agencies, organisations, and
state institutions was determined
primarily by the rights of an agency of
the USSR granted to the OCOG-80 by
the USSR Council of Ministers and
regulated by the Constitution of the
USSR.
In 1975, exercising those rights,
the OCOG-80 made a proposal to the
Council of Ministers of the USSR that
a number of ministries, government
agencies, organisations, and state institutions
should be given certain
specific assignments in connection
with the preparations for the coming
Olympic Games. The OCOG-80 had
previously discussed this proposal
with the bodies concerned and they
agreed to carry out the assignments.
Attaching great importance to the
1980 Olympic Games, the USSR Council
of Ministers issued several decrees
between 1975 and 1980 to ensure that
the preparations would be completed
on time. Thus, the first decree issued
in December, 1975 made some ministries
and agencies responsible for the
modernisation of the existing facilities
and construction of new ones.
The main Olympic modernisation
and construction jobs in Moscow were
handled by construction organisations
of the Executive Committee of the
Moscow City Soviet of People's Deputies.
They included the construction
of the Olympic Village and of several
new sports installations, modernisation
of the Central Lenin Stadium and
of other sports facilities. The same
organisations were awarded the construction
and modernisation of municipal,
service, and urban development
facilities. The USSR Ministry of Communications
was made responsible for
building communication facilities. The
manufacture of equipment and devices
was entrusted to the respective
ministries.
The duties to build the Yachting
Centre in Tallinn, to modernise
stadiums in Leningrad, Kiev and Minsk
were assumed by construction organisations
of the Estonian SSR, and of
the Executive Committees of the
Soviets in respective cities.
The State Committee of the USSR
Council of Ministers for Television and
Radio Broadcasting was given the
task of providing colour television and
radio broadcasts from the Olympic
venues to all five continents of the
world. The Ministry of Instrument-
Making, Automation Equipment and
Control Systems (Minpribor) was
charged with the development of an
automated control systems and data
processing for the Games. The hard-