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 Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

. 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 t ...

standards include: *

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 Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The term ...

s * GOST 5284-84: Tushonka (canned stewed beef) *

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 Post-Soviet states, former Soviet Republics, as we ...

: Standard for power plugs and sockets used in

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and throughout the

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* GOST 10859: A 1964 character set for computers, includes non-

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/non-

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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 *

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 b ...

: A standard for Cyrillic-to-Latin transliteration * GOST 27974-88: Programming language ALGOL 68 * GOST 27975-88: Programming language ALGOL 68 extended * GOST 28147-89

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– commonly referred to as just ''GOST'' in

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References

External links

The official website of Rostest in Moscow

Euro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (EASC) official website
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