title: All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions
text: # All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions
  
  The All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions (ACCTU; Russian: Всесоюзный центральный совет профессиональных союзов, VTsSPS) was the national trade union federation of the Soviet Union.
  
  The federation was established in January 1918. In October 1990, it was dissolved, and replaced by the General Confederation of Trade Unions of the USSR.
  
  ## History
  
  ### Precursors
  
  In 1905, First All Russian Conference of Trade Unions was held.
  
  In 1906, Second All Russian Conference of Trade Unions was held.
  
  In 1917, Third All-Russian Conference of Trade Unions was held.
  
  In 1918, Fourth All Russian Conference of Trade Unions was held.
  
  ### The Federation
  
  In 1945, the World Trade Union Conference took place in London, United Kingdom, organised alongside the British Trades Union Congress and the U.S. Congress of Industrial Organizations.
  
  ## Affiliates
  
  | Union | Founded | Left | Reason left |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Agricultural and Procurement Workers' Union | 1899 | | |
  | Automobile Transport Workers' Union | | 1957 | Merged |
  | Aviation and Defence Industry Workers' Union | 1957 | 1977 | Split |
  | Aviation Industry Workers' Union | | 1957 | Merged |
  | Aviation Industry Workers' Union | 1977 | | |
  | Aviation Workers' Union | | | |
  | Building and Building Materials Workers' Union | 1957 | | |
  | Building Materials Industry Workers' Union | | 1957 | Merged |
  | Chemical Industry Workers' Union | | 1957 | Merged |
  | Coal Mining Industry Workers' Union | | | |
  | Communication, Automobile Transport and Highway Workers' Union | 1957 | | |
  | Communications Workers' Union | | 1957 | Merged |
  | Construction Workers' Union | 1946 | 1957 | Merged |
  | Consumer Co-operatives Workers' Union | | 1957 | Merged |
  | Consumer Goods Industry Workers' Union | | 1957 | Merged |
  | Cultural Workers' Union | | | |
  | Defence Industry Workers' Union | | 1957 | Merged |
  | Defence Industry Workers' Union | 1977 | | |
  | Education, Higher Schools and Scientific Institutions Workers' Union | 1957 | | |
  | Engineering Workers' Union | | | |
  | Food Products Industry Workers' Union | | | |
  | Geological Survey Workers' Union | | | |
  | Higher Schools and Scientific Institutions Workers' Union | | 1957 | Merged |
  | Highway and Hydraulic Engineering Workers' Union | 1934 | 1955 | Merged |
  | Local Industry and Municipal Services Workers' Union | 1957 |
  | Local Industry Workers' Union | | 1957 | Merged |
  | Machine Building Industry Workers' Union | | 1957 | Merged |
  | Medical Workers' Union | | | |
  | Metallurgical Industry Workers' Union | 1957 | | |
  | Municipal Services Workers' Union | | 1957 | Merged |
  | Oil and Chemical Industry Workers' Union | 1957 | | |
  | Oil Industry Workers' Union | | 1957 | Merged |
  | Power Stations and Electrical Industry Workers' Union | | | |
  | Railway Transport Workers' Union | | | |
  | Sea and River Workers' Union | | | |
  | State Institutions Workers' Union | | | |
  | State Trade and Consumer Co-operative Societies Workers' Union | 1957 | | |
  | State Trade and Public Catering Enterprise Workers' Union | | 1957 | Merged |
  | Textile and Light Industry Workers' Union | 1948 | 1990 | Federation dissolved |
  | Timber and Rafting Workers' Union | 1948 | 1953 | Merged |
  | Timber, Paper and Woodworkers' Union | 1953 | | |
  | Transport and Heavy Machine Building Workers' Union | | 1957 | Merged |
  | Urban and Rural Construction Workers' Union | 1946 | 1956 | Merged |
  | Woodworkers' Union | 1948 | 1953 | Merged |
  
  ## Presidents
  
      1918: Grigory Zinoviev
      1918: Mikhail Tomsky
      1929: Alexander Dogadov
      1930: Nikolai Shvernik
      1944: Vasili Kuznetsov
      1953: Nikolai Shvernik
      1956: Viktor Grishin
      1967: Alexander Shelepin
      1976: Alexei Shibaev
      1982: Stepan Shalaev
      1990: Gennady Yanayev
  