Ministry of Transport (Russia)

Not to be confused with Ministry of the Means of Communication (Soviet Union).

Ministry of Transport of Russia

Министерство транспорта Российской Федерации
File:Emblem of the Russian Minstry of Transport.png Ministry seal
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Agency overview
Formed	1809
Jurisdiction	Government of Russia
Headquarters	1/1 Rozhdestvenka, Moscow
Employees	500
Annual budget	112,2 billion rubles
Minister responsible	Maksim Sokolov
Child agency	Russian Federal Agency for Transport Safety, Russian Federal Agency for Air Transport, Russian Federal Agency for Roads, Russian Federal Agency for Rail Transport
Website	www.mintrans.ru

The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation (Russian: Министерство транспорта Российской Федерации) is the Russian ministry responsible for developing public policies and legal regulations regarding commercial aviation, sea transport, inland waterway transport, railroads, road transport, urban metro systems, and commercial transport vehicles. The ministry is also responsible for surveying and mapping and naming geographic features. It is headquartered in Moscow.

The ministry was created in 1809 as the Ministry of Railway Transport of the Russian Empire and became the Ministry of Railway of the USSR after the revolution, later expanding its authority and becoming the Ministry of Transport of the USSR. After the collapse of the Soviet Union it was re-established as the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (this being the successor state to the USSR). When that state was renamed to the Russian Federation on December 25, 1991, the ministry's name was again changed to Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation.

For a brief period - March 9, 2004 to May 20, 2004 - the ministry was combined with the Ministry of Communications and Information. This short-lived combined agency was named The Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Russian Federation.

Subordinate agencies

• Federal Service for Transport Oversight ("Rostransnadzor"; Федеральная служба по надзору в сфере транспорта, Ространснадзор). Formed in 2004.
• Federal Air Transport Agency (FATA) ("Rosaviatsia"; Федеральное агентство воздушного транспорта, Росавиация). Formed in 1964 as Ministry for Civil Air Transport in Soviet Union, responsible for Inspection over the Civil Air Transport. Previous names: Department for Air Transport under the Transportation Ministry (1991-1995), Federal Air Service (1996-1998), Federal Service for Air Transport (1999), State Service for Civil Aviation (2000-2003), Since 2004 is carrying the current name.
• Federal Highway Agency ("Rosavtodor"; Федеральное дорожное агентство, Росавтодор)
• Federal Railway Transport Agency ("Roszheldor"; Федеральное агентство железнодорожного транспорта), formed in 2004 on basic of the previous Railways Ministry which was dissolved.
• Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport of Russia ("Rosmorrechflot"; Федеральное агентство морского и речного транспорта, Росморречфлот).

Ministers of Transport of the Russian Federation

Main article: List of Ministers of Transport of Russia

Vitaly Efimov	1990 - 1996
Nikolai Zach	1996–1998
Sergei Frank	1998–2004
Igor Levitin	2004 - 2012
Maksim Sokolov	2012–present

See also

• Transport in Russia
• Rail transport in Russia

External links

• Ministry of Transport official website (Russian)
• Legal acts of the Ministry of Transport (Russian)