The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation (russian: Министерство транспорта Российской Федерации) is a
ministry
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of the
Government of Russia
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responsible for
transportation
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.
The Ministry of Transport oversees
road transport
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,
railroad
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s,
commercial aviation
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Definition
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,
sea transport
Maritime transport (or ocean transport) and hydraulic effluvial transport, or more generally waterborne transport, is the transport of people ( passengers) or goods (cargo) via waterways. Freight transport by sea has been widely used throu ...
,
inland waterway
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transport, and urban
metro
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systems in Russia. The ministry develops public policies and legal regulations, and also oversees the surveying, mapping, and naming of
geographic feature
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s. The Ministry of Transport is headquartered in
Meshchansky District
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The district extends due north from Kitai-gorod to Kamer-Kollezhsky Val. Western ...
,
Moscow
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.
The Ministry of Transport was created in 1809 as the Ministry of Railway Transport of the
Russian Empire
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and later became the People's Commissariat for Railways of the
USSR
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. It was reformed into the Ministry of Railways in 1946 and later expanded its authority to become the Ministry of Transport of the USSR. It was re-established as the Ministry of Transport of the
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
after the
collapse of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
in 1991 and received its current name when the state was renamed to the Russian Federation on December 25, 1991. The Ministry of Transport was combined with the Ministry of Communications and Information for a brief period as short-lived Ministry of Transport and Communications from 9 March to 20 May 2004.
Vitaly Savelyev
Vitaly Gennadyevich Savelyev (russian: Виталий Геннадьевич Савельев; born January 18, 1954) is a Russian businessman and politician serving as the Minister of Transport since 10 November 2020. Previously, he served as th ...
has been the Minister of Transport since 10 November 2020.
Subordinate agencies
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Federal Service for Supervision of Transport
The Federal Service for Supervision of Transport (russian: Федеральная служба по надзору в сфере транспорта, Rostransnadzor, Ространснадзор) is an agency of the Government of Russia. The agen ...
("Rostransnadzor"; Федеральная служба по надзору в сфере транспорта, Ространснадзор). Formed in 2004.
*
Federal Air Transport Agency
The Federal Air Transport Agency (russian: Федеральное агентство воздушного транспорта - ''Federalnoye agentstvo vozdushnogo transporta'', ''FAVT''), also known as Rosaviatsiya (russian: Росавиац ...
(FATA) ("Rosaviatsia"; Федеральное агентство воздушного транспорта, Росавиация). Formed in 1964 as Ministry for Civil Air Transport in
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
, 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 Road Agency ("Rosavtodor"; Федеральное дорожное агентство, Росавтодор)
*
Federal Rail 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 Transportation ("Rosmorrechflot"; Федеральное агентство морского и речного транспорта, Росморречфлот).
Ministers of Transport of the Russian Federation
See also
*
Transport in Russia
The transport network of the Russian Federation is one of the world's most extensive transport networks. The national web of roads, railways and airways stretches almost from Kaliningrad in the west to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the east, and ...
*
Rail transport in Russia
Rail transport in Russia runs on one of the biggest railway networks in the world. Russian railways are the third longest by length and third by volume of freight hauled, after the railways of the United States and China. In overall density of o ...
References
External links
Ministry of Transport official websiteLegal acts of the Ministry of Transport
Organizations based in Moscow
Russia
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Transport
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1990 establishments in Russia
Transport organizations based in Russia
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