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[alan p. pollard]

According to Zalucky's _Compressed Russian_, NKO was the abbreviation for
Narodnyi komissariat oborony, which existed from 1934 to 1946, when the
commissariats became ministries.  -Alan Pollard, U. of Michigan Library

On Sun, 25 Jun 1995, Merlin Valery wrote:

> May anyone suggest a source (an internet site) to get the list of
> Soviet abbreviations of Stalin period? In particular, I'd like to know
> what NKO would mean.
>