Ministry of Transport (Russia)

Ministry of Transport of Russia
Министерство транспорта Российской Федерации

Ministry seal
Agency overview
Formed 1809
Jurisdiction Government of Russia
Headquarters 1/1 Rozhdestvenka, Moscow
55°45′47.79″N 37°37′29.47″E / 55.7632750°N 37.6248528°E / 55.7632750; 37.6248528Coordinates: 55°45′47.79″N 37°37′29.47″E / 55.7632750°N 37.6248528°E / 55.7632750; 37.6248528
Employees 500
Annual budget 112,2 billion rubles
Minister responsible
Child agency
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; after the revolution it became the People's Commissariat for Railways of the USSR and then (after 1946) the Ministry of Railways, 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

Ministers of Transport of the Russian Federation

Vitaly Efimov 1990 - 1996
Nikolai Zach 1996–1998
Sergei Frank 1998–2004
Igor Levitin 2004[1] - 2012
Maksim Sokolov 2012–present

See also

References

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


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