Technical Control Department

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In economy of the Soviet Union and economy of Russia, Technical Control Departments ({{langx|ru|Отдел технического контроля, ОТК}}, OTK) were and are in charge of quality assurance of production and services.Large Encyclopedic Dictionary, vol. 2, Moscow, 1991, article "Отдел технического контроля"[http://profiz.ru/se/10_04/pol_ob_tex_contr/ Statute of a Technical Control Department] (modern Russia), Spravochnik Ekonomista ("Economist's Reference"), no. 10, 2004 {{in lang|ru}}

In the late Soviet Union the OTK existed in all socialist enterprises.