Rostest (russian: Ростест) is the largest organization of practical
metrology
Metrology is the scientific study of measurement. It establishes a common understanding of units, crucial in linking human activities. Modern metrology has its roots in the French Revolution's political motivation to standardise units in Fran ...
and certification in the
Russian Federation
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. Rostest attempts to ensure uniformity of measurements in industry, health care, communication systems, trading, military defense, and resource counting as well as
environmental protection
Environmental protection is the practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, organizations and governments. Its objectives are to conserve natural resources and the existing natural environment and, where possible, to repair dam ...
and other economic activities.
History
The new Rostest mark of certification was introduced in Russia in 1992 and went into effect on 1 July 1993. On the base of Rostest in Moscow they founded one of the first organs for certification of products and services and the quality systems within the system of obligatory certification in the early 1990s.
Certification in Russia
In order to import and sell goods in Russia it is necessary to draw up appropriate documents, including Correspondence Certificates, Correspondence Declaration, and Letters of Refusal. Rostest prepares certification documents. Rostest specialists check, calibrate, and test means of measurement. It then aproves the type, the device, and the method of performing measurements.
Rostest owns a modern testing base and the most recent equipment. Cooperating institutions in Russia include:
Russian Techno Regulation,
Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES), Russian Consumer Rights' Supervision, and RRIS (Russian Research Institute of Certification).
Standards
Rostest-Moscow conducts certification in two systems:
GOST R and Rostest-Quality ().
GOST
GOST (russian: ГОСТ) refers to a set of international technical standards maintained by the ''Euro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (EASC)'', a regional standards organization operating under the auspices of th ...
standards include:
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GOST 7.67 GOST 7.67 is GOST standard for country codes and codes of Russian federal subjects (regions).
The standard defines country names in Russian and English language, Cyrillic three-letter country codes, Latin three- and two-letter country codes, as we ...
:
Country code
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s
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GOST 5284-84
GOST (russian: ГОСТ) refers to a set of international technical standards maintained by the ''Euro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (EASC)'', a regional standards organization operating under the auspices of the ...
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Tushonka
Tushonka ( rus, тушёнка, p=tʊˈʂonkə, from тушение — 'braising') is a canned stewed meat especially popular in Russia and other countries of the former Eastern Bloc. It has become a common name for different kinds of canned ste ...
(canned stewed beef)
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GOST 7396 GOST 7396 (''ГОСТ 7396'' in Cyrillic) is a series of Soviet and later Russian standards that specify basic dimensions and safety requirements for power plugs and sockets used in Russia and other former Soviet Republics, as well as for export to ...
: Standard for power plugs and sockets used in
Russia
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and throughout the
Commonwealth of Independent States
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GOST 10859
GOST 10859 (1964) is a standard of the Soviet Union which defined how to encode data on punched cards. This standard allowed a variable word size, depending on the type of data being encoded, but only uppercase characters.
These include the non-A ...
: A 1964 character set for computers, includes non-
ASCII
ASCII ( ), abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Because of ...
/non-
Unicode
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characters required when programming in the
ALGOL
ALGOL (; short for "Algorithmic Language") is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in 1958. ALGOL heavily influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ...
programming language
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GOST 16876-71 GOST 16876-71 (russian: ГОСТ 16876-71) is a romanization system (for transliteration of Russian Cyrillic alphabet texts into the Latin alphabet) devised by the National Administration for Geodesy and Cartography of the Soviet Union. It is based ...
: A standard for
Cyrillic-to-Latin transliteration
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GOST 27974-88: Programming language ALGOL 68
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GOST 27975-88
GOST (russian: ГОСТ) refers to a set of international technical standards maintained by the ''Euro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (EASC)'', a regional standards organization operating under the auspices of the ...
: Programming language ALGOL 68 extended
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GOST 28147-89 block cipher
In cryptography, a block cipher is a deterministic algorithm operating on fixed-length groups of bits, called ''blocks''. Block ciphers are specified cryptographic primitive, elementary components in the design of many cryptographic protocols and ...
– commonly referred to as just ''GOST'' in
cryptography
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References
External links
The official website of Rostest in MoscowEuro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (EASC) official website
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Scientific organizations based in Russia
Certification marks