Centrosojus
| Centrosojus
|
|
|---|---|
 |
|
| legal form | cooperative |
| founding | 1896 |
| Seat | Moscow |
| management | Yevgeny Nikolayevich Kuznetsov |
| Number of employees | approx. 250,000 |
| sales | approx. 246 billion rubles (as of 2012) |
| Branch | Grocery retail , agriculture , food production , service , construction , education |
| Website | www.rus.coop |
Centrosoyouz the Russian Federation or Confederation of Consumer Cooperatives of Russia ( Russian Центральный союз потребительских обществ Российской Федерации ) the highest coordinating and non-commercial organ of the designated consumer cooperatives of Russia .
history
Tsarist Russia
The Decembrists were at the start of the cooperative movement in Russia . The first cooperative was called Bolshaya Artel (Russian Большая артель - large cooperative) and was founded in 1831 by exiled Russian officers in what is now Petrovsk-Sabaikalski , Siberia . It had a written statute, elected bodies and a license to take up agricultural activities. The statutes contained cooperative principles such as voluntary membership as well as democratic administration and control.
In August 1896, at the All-Russian Exhibition of Industry and Crafts in Nizhny Novgorod, a meeting of a working group of the Trade and Industry Congress was held, at which 60 representatives from 32 Russian cooperatives took part. They discussed the approval of a cooperative union and its statutes by the Tsarist Council of Ministers. On May 13, 1897, the general statutes were approved, but the establishment of a union was tacitly rejected. As a result, the cooperative members changed their tactics and began to call congresses at the regional level.
However, in October 1896 and April 1897, members of the Moscow cooperative held three consultations with representatives of the consumer cooperatives from Tver , Tula and Orechowo-Sujewskij, at which they agreed on the establishment of an all-Russian association of consumer cooperatives under the auspices of the Moscow Government Union . The founders of the All-Russian Cooperative Center, under the auspices of the Moscow Union of Consumer Cooperatives, included cooperative members from 10 Russian governorates . On June 16, 1898, the Russian government approved the establishment of the Moscow Union of Consumer Cooperatives. The first meeting of representatives of the consumer cooperatives took place on November 5th and 6th, 1898. The assembly elected the leadership of the Moscow Union (Centrosoyuz). In 1917, the Zentrosojus consisted of members from 285 associations and 3,167 consumer cooperatives. On June 15, 1903, the Zentrosojus joined the International Cooperative Alliance. After the February Revolution of 1917 , the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Provisional Government determined the name of the All-Russian Central Association of Consumer Cooperatives and reaffirmed the name Zentrosoyus .
Russian Soviet Republic
From 1918 to 1921, Soviet economic policy determined the economic and social activities of the Zentrosoyuz and its organizational structure. In 1918 all associations of the consumer cooperatives were forced to join the Zentrosojus and in March 1919 a hierarchical organizational structure was introduced, consisting of the primary consumer cooperative (Russian: первичное потребительское общество), the district association (Russian G грайсою Central Association (Russian Центросоюз - Zentrosojus). This is how the Soviet Centrosoyuz and the Soviet consumer cooperatives came into being as semi-governmental organizations with only a few cooperative characteristics.
Soviet Union
In the period of the New Economic Policy (1921–1928) the consumer cooperatives were given a relative and short-lived independence. Entry fees, shares and the election of the management bodies were introduced. Until the beginning of the 1928/29 financial year, the Zentrosojus performed the function of the all-Russian and all-union organization and economic center of the consumer cooperatives. By resolution of the 41st meeting of the commissioners, on October 1, 1928, the centrosoyuz of the RSFSR was separated from the centrosoyuz of the USSR . Barely two years later, in July 1930, the 2nd Congress of the Commissioners of the Consumer Cooperatives in Moscow passed the resolution to reunite the two organizations. As early as 1954, the 4th Congress of Commissioners of Consumer Cooperatives decided to separate the Russian Federation of Consumer Cooperatives (Russian Роспотребсоюз - Rostrebsojus) from Centrosojus. Separate associations existed in the Soviet republics under the umbrella of the Centrosoyuz.
In April 1991 the Rostrebsojus was renamed Zentrosojus of the RSFSR and in January 1992 to Zentrosojus of the Russian Federation. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the Central Office of the USSR also ceased its work.
Russian Federation
In June 1992 the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation decided to introduce a law on consumer cooperatives in the Russian Federation. The Centrosoyuz of the Russian Federation thus became the legal successor to the Centrosoyuz of the USSR. In the first transition years, the cooperatives struggled with economic difficulties. The situation only stabilized between 1996 and 1998. By the end of the 1990s, 557 consumer cooperatives were registered in Russia.
organization structure
The Central Association of Consumer Cooperatives of the Russian Federation is a voluntary association of consumer cooperatives and a non-profit organization . Its highest body is the General Assembly of Members of Consumer Cooperatives of the Russian Federation. It takes place when necessary, but at least once a year. In the period between meetings, the Council meets under the leadership of the Council Chairman. The members of the council and the chairman are elected by the general assembly for a period of five years. The control body of the Zentrosojus is the revision commission. Its members are elected by the general assembly for a period of five years.
On January 1, 2010, the Zentrosojus united 3.8 million shareholders, approx. 3,000 consumer cooperatives, 135 Rajon consumer cooperatives and 76 regional consumer cooperatives .
activities
The consumer cooperative organizations supply the rural areas of Russia with food. They produce meat and dairy products as well as other foodstuffs, run shops, and offer services for agriculture, housekeeping and construction. They also run polyclinics , sanatoriums and cooperative educational institutions.
Web links
- Homepage of the Centrosoyuz of the Russian Federation. Retrieved December 22, 2012 (Russian).
literature
- Центросоюз в прошлом. In: Бурят-Монгольская правда . No. 23 . Ulan-Ude November 4, 1923, p. 3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Центросоюз в цифрах ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )