Noun
apparat (plural apparats)
The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
One of Abykayev's proteges, Yerjan Utembayev of the senatorial apparat, had been accused of organization of the murder, and Abykayev paid for it now. Source: Internet
Brown had no connections to the Soviet sporting apparat, nor had he ever spoken to Sabonis. Source: Internet