The Federal Service for Supervision of Transport (, Rostransnadzor, Ространснадзор) is an agency of the

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. The agency is headquartered in

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. It was formed in 2004 as a result of

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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

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.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 Transport (in British English) or transportation (in American English) is the intentional Motion, movement of humans, animals, and cargo, goods from one location to another. Mode of transport, Modes of transport include aviation, air, land tr ...

: *Goszheldornadzor ( railroad transport) *Gosavtodornadzor (automobile transport) *Gosmorrechnadzor (

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and river transport) *Gosavianadzor ( aviation transport) *Transport safety

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Federal Service for Supervision of Transport
Government of Russia Transport organizations based in Russia {{Russia-gov-stub