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
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. The agency is headquartered in
Moscow
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. It was formed in 2004 as a result of
government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government i ...
reform
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s which moved supervisory functions out of several agencies into a new one.
As of 2013, Alexander Kasyanov was the head of the agency. The Rostrasnadzor oversees and supervises several aspects of Russia's
transport network
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Examples include but are not limited to road networks, railways, air routes ...
.
Federal Service for Supervision of Transport
." Government of Russia. Retrieved on February 2, 2013. "37 Leningradsky Prospekt, Moscow 125993"
Address in Russian
"125993, г. Москва, Ленинградский проспект, дом 37, корп. 1."
Rostransnadzor has several agencies, according to the type of transport
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:
*Goszheldornadzor ( railroad transport)
*Gosavtodornadzor (automobile transport)
*Gosmorrechnadzor (sea
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and river transport
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)
*Gosavianadzor ( aviation transport)
*Transport safety
References
External links
Federal Service for Supervision of Transport
Government of Russia
Transport organizations based in Russia
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