The final period of the history of the Russian industrial cooperation is studied to a lesser extent than the previous stages of its development. This is not surprising, because after the abolition of cooperative industry in I960, the topic was considered undissectable for almost 30 years. The subject of our research is the history of the Russian industrial cooperation as a public organization. The task is not to analyze economic indicators, enough has already been written about them, but the fate of the people - the founders and leaders of the Russian industrial cooperation, their work at cooperative congresses and plenums, the formation of elected cooperative bodies, their relationship with the Council of Ministers, the State Planning Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the Central Committee of the CPSU. Thus, "Russian Industrial Cooperation" for us is not a form of ownership or an abstract category of political economy, but the name of a specific public organization founded in 1913 and liquidated in I960.