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The proposals on the organisation
of administration of the Games were
worked out by the Department of
Administration and Network Planning
in co-operation not only with other
departments but also with the USSR
Sports Committee, the Moscow City
Soviet's Executive Committee, some
ministries and agencies.
The proposals were approved by
the Presidium of the OCOG-80 on
February 5, 1980.
In accordance with the Games Administration
Chart, the following new
Olympic administrative units were set
up:
Operational Presidium of the
OCOG-80;
Games Control Headquarters;
20 Operational Bureaus of the
OCOG-80 Commissions;
24 Operational Centres for Competitions;
17 Operational Centres at the support
facilities;
Operational Centres at training
facilities;
Communications centre;
ACS Centre;
OTVRC Centre;
Centre for the Olympic Torch Relay
and Opening and Closing Ceremonies;
Doping Control Centre;
Central Directorate for the Cultural
Programme.
This allowed to combine the centralised
administration of the Games
with decentralised control which required
independent management of
the events (sports, protocol, culture)
on the spot. It was assumed that
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problems which might arise would be
solved at the levels of authority corresponding
to the importance of a
problem (Operational centre, HQ, Operational
Presidium).
These bodies enjoyed assistance
on the part of the services of the
Moscow City Soviet's Executive Committee
and the USSR Sports Committee,
and various ministries and government
agencies in staging the
Games and related events through the
direct involvement of the representatives
of the latter.
The Operational Presidium was to
consider and solve quickly major issues
during the Games. It was composed
of 11 members: Ignati Novikov,
the OCOG-80 President; Vladimir
Promyslov and Sergei Pavlov, the
OCOG-80 Vice-Presidents; M. V. Gramov
and F. M. Chebrikov, the
OCOG-80 members; Vitali Smirnov,
Vladimir Popov, Ivan Denisov,
and Georgi Rogulski, Executive Vice-
Presidents of the OCOG-80; and
I. N. Ponomarev, a member of the
Moscow City Soviet's Executive Committee;
Leonid Kesler, the Executive
Bureau member, was made the Executive
Secretary of the Operational Presidium.
The Operational Presidium assembled
for the first time on June 9, 1980.
Prior to the Games, the Operational
Presidium held 14 meetings, discussed
and decided 61 important questions.
It approved the membership of
commissions for a comprehensive inspection
of the Olympic facilities to
check their readiness for the Games;
operating schedules for the depart-
Ignati Novikov at the Games'
Control Headquarters meeting