Ispolkom
Ispolkom (исполком) is an
Russian language abbreviation for "Ispolnitelniy komitet" (исполнительный комитет), which may be translated as "executive committee".
In the
Soviet Union an
ispolkom was a local organ of executive and regulatory power, an office of the local
soviet. It consisted of the members of the soviet in question. In its subordination were various departments manned by ordinary clerks.
The following addition abbreviations were in use:
gorispolkom ("gorod" (city) + "ispolkom") was an ispolkom of city Soviet, raiispolkom, was an ispolkom of a city
raion soviet. Selispolkom is the one of a
selsoviet and
posispolkom for a
possoviet (settlement soviet).
The term is still in use in some
post-Soviet states, e.g., in
Belarus () and
Ukraine ().
