OST

OST, All-Union Standard. These are standards for individual objects (goods, building materials, food products, household items, etc.), approved by the Committee for Standardization under the USSR State Planning Committee and mandatory throughout the entire territory of the USSR. Each is issued under a consecutive number - No... As of January 1, 1932, there are approximately 4,000 of them. By a resolution of the Central Executive Committee and Council of People's Commissars of the USSR of November 23, 1929 (Collection of Laws of the USSR, No. 2, article 9, 1930), the Central Executive Committees of the republics were instructed to provide in their Criminal Codes sanctions for non-compliance with OSTs - deprivation of liberty for up to 2 years or compulsory labor for a term of up to 1 year. In the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, this is provided for in Article 128-6.