Ispolkom

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Ispolkom (исполком) is a Russian language abbreviation for "Ispolnitelniy komitet" (исполнительный комитет), which may be translated as "executive committee" or "administration".

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). Oblispolkom stands for oblast ispolkom.

The term is still in use in some post-Soviet states, e.g., in Belarus (Belarusian: vykankom, выканком) and Ukraine (Ukrainian: vykonkom, виконком).