Ministry of Transport of the Russian FederationGovernment

The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation is the federal executive body responsible for developing state policy and legal regulation in the field of civil aviation, maritime, inland waterways, railway, road, and urban transport infrastructure. Tracing its administrative origins to 1809 under Emperor Alexander I as the Department of Water and Land Communications, it evolved through the Soviet transport commissariats before being re-established in its modern form in 1991 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.