Ministry of Transport (Russia)

Emblem of the Russian Ministry of Transport

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.

The ministry was created by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on July 26, 1990 as a successor to the Ministry of Transport of the USSR. Until December 25, 1991 it was named The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

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

Flag of the Russian Ministry of Transport

• Federal Service for Transport Oversight ("Rostransnadzor")
• Federal Air Transport Agency (FATA) ("Rosaviatsia")
• Federal Highway Agency ("Rosavtodor)
• Federal Railway Transport Agency ("Roszheldor")
• Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport of Russia ("Rosmorrechflot").

Ministers of Transport of the Russian Federation

Vitaly Efimov	1990 - 1996
Nikolai Zach	1996 - 1998
Sergei Frank	1998 - 2004
Igor Levitin	2004 - present (as of 2011)

(From March 9, 2004 to May 20, 2004 Levetin's title was Minister of Transport and Communications of the Russian Federation.)

See also

• Transport in Russia
• Rail transport in Russia

References

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.

External links

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