рус | eng November 18-21, 2009 International transport forum and exhibition
«Transport of Russia: the Establishment, Development and the Prospects»

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ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRANSPORT AUTHORITY
AND TRANSPORT EDUCATION
(1809-2009)

First records of the state authorities to deal with transportation in Russia date back to the middle of the 16th century. It the Yamskoy Prikaz which existed up to 1711. On its basis later in 1782 the Pochtovy (Mail) Department was set up. In 1733 the Office of the Prospect road from Moscow to St.Petersburg was founded which came to be named the Office for the public roads construction. This is where the history of the State Authority for the roads industry management starts from.

In 1798 the water communications department was founded which marked the birthday of the state authority on the river transport.

On November 20, 1809 the Manifest by the Emperor Alexander I was issued which set up the Authority for the water and road communications and the Institute for the rail engineers’ corps.

The Expeditions was established by the General director of the Authority consisting of 3 grades: water communications, road communications and commercial ports, and the Management Board. In order to ensure better management of the water and road communications the territory of the Russian Empire was divided into 10 areas.

The date of the establishment of the Authority for the water and road communications is the birthday of a single state authority to manage all the existing by the time means of transport: river, sea and road, and also providing for the controlling authority and the territorial authorities of the transport routes management.

The year of 1809 is also the beginning of the transport science and education in Russia. By the Authority for the water and road communications, with “the aim to educate gifted personnel”, the Institute was established in St.Petersburg for the rail engineers’ corps. Lieutenant General A.Betankur was appointed the Inspector for the intended Institute “for the education of the youths in sciences required for the water communications”.

In 1810 the first enrollment of the pupils for the rail engineers corps took place.

The Authority for the water and road communications was reformed into the Central Directorate for the water and road communications.

With his order of August 25, 1814 Alexander I ruled that the “General Director for the water and road communications General Engineer Devolant should attend the Ministers Committee and address it exercising his rights as a Minister” as “by the distribution of the public responsibilities the Central Directorate was kept as provided by its establishment on November 20, 1809 and presented a separate Ministry”

In 1833 the Central Directorate for the water and road communications was reformed into the Central Directorate for the communications and public buildings. In 1842 within the Directorate the Railways Department was set up.

In 1864 the Institute for the rail engineers’ corps was renamed the Institute for the engineers for the railway communications.

In 1865 the Central Directorate for the communications was renamed the Ministry of communications. The Ministry consisted of the 4 departments: road, water, rail communications and the department for the reports and inspections. In this form the Ministry existed up to 1918, when it was renamed by the Soviet government into the People's commissariat for the communications.

In 1930 the Institute for the engineers for the railway communications was reformed into two separate schools: Leningrad institute for the water transport engineers based on the water department and the Leningrad institute for the rail transport engineers as based on the construction, mechanical and operations departments.

In 1931 the People's commissariat for the communications was abolished and the separate commissariats for the individual means of transport were established.

In 1990 the Ministry of Transport of the RSFSR was set up which was meant as a single body of the state management and control for the transport industry and combined the management of the road industry, river, sea, industrial transportation and the civil aviation.

In 1991 the Ministry of transport of the RF was set up.

In 1992 as based on the Ministry of rail communication of the USSR the RF Ministry of rail communication was established as the executive power on the rail transport.

By the President’s Decree of March 9, 2004 «On the system and structure of the federal executive power authorities” the Ministry of transport of the RF and the Ministry of railway communications of the RF were abolished and a single Ministry of transport and communications of the RF was established, which was reformed into the Ministry of Transport of the RF and the Ministry of Information and Communications by the Decree of May 20, 2004. Thus on May 20, 2004 the single federal authority for the transport industry was reconstituted.