Russian Railways buy 9 thousand computers from the Russian OS for 1.5 billion rubles

2024: Russian Railways buys 9 thousand computers with Russian OS for 1.5 billion rubles

On April 12, 2024, it became known that Russian Railways is purchasing more than 9,000 automated workplaces (AWS) - personal computers with the pre-installed Russian operating system Astra Linux. The cost of the equipment will be approximately 1.5 billion rubles.

According to the Vedomosti newspaper, the project is being implemented in order to fulfill the requirements of the government decree on the minimum share of purchases of goods of Russian origin. The available computers of foreign production will be decommissioned as outdated and replaced with Russian AWS.

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The documents of Russian Railways say that the purchased AWS should include a system unit, monitor, keyboard and mouse included in the register of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. According to the terms of reference, the Russian operating system Astra Linux Special Edition must be preinstalled on the AWS, which has certificates from the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Federal Customs and Export Control Service (FSTEC) and is suitable for use at critical information infrastructure (CII) facilities. The subjects of CII include state organizations, legal entities and individual entrepreneurs who own information systems from a number of strategically important industries, including transport. Computers should also have a Yandex browser.

It is noted that domestic AWS are intended for infrastructure and management branches of Russian Railways in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Irkutsk, Samara and Nizhny Novgorod. Based on the number of purchased computers and the total cost of the project, the price of one unit is approximately 167 thousand rubles (taking into account peripherals and software licenses). The Contractor will have to deliver the AWS no later than November 25, 2024.^[1]

2022: Pilot project for the transfer of automated workplaces to domestic solutions

On September 26, 2022, Greenatom (IT integrator of Rosatom) announced the implementation of a joint pilot project in Russian Railways JSC to develop a technology for transferring automated workplaces to domestic solutions.

16 branches of Russian Railways took part in the pilot project to transfer 5,000 jobs to the Astra Linux operating system. All import-replaced workplaces were successfully connected to the system of basic IT services developed by specialists of the nuclear industry. By the time of the start of the migration work, a system of basic IT services for managing the import-independent infrastructure of the AWS was developed and put into commercial operation.

As a result of the project, Russian Railways has a system of services that completely replaces similar services MS Windows and includes a directory service subsystem, basic network services (s) DNS , DHCP configuration management, PERSONAL COMPUTER update and distribution management, and exchange ON. files

The contractor transferred all the results of intellectual activity, technical and user documentation for registration of the system in Rospatent and further registration in the register of domestic software. Under the terms of the contract, Greenatom will provide technical support to the system during the warranty period.

A subsidiary of Russian Railways-TechService LLC provided significant support in the migration process in the context of the wide geography of the project.

"Greenatom," as an IT integrator of the nuclear industry, is the "engine" of the import substitution program at Rosatom enterprises. Our practices, experience and systems of our own design for transferring workplaces to domestic software have shown their effectiveness in the contour of the nuclear industry and can be used by other large industrial companies. Cooperation with Russian Railways is an important stage for testing the opportunities that our industry has, "said Andrei Lavrov, acting First Deputy General Director of Greenatom JSC.

As of September 2022, there are about 240 thousand users of automated workplaces located throughout the country in Russian Railways. The scale and geography of our IT infrastructure creates special requirements for the quality and security of the solutions being implemented. Russian railways provide the bulk of passenger and freight traffic, all our systems must perform their functions flawlessly, so we are very careful about the import substitution process. In cooperation with Greenatom, we were able to fulfill the main tasks of switching to an import-independent infrastructure - we transferred jobs to basic domestic software and developed tools for managing the created environment, "said Kirill Semion, head of the informatization department of Russian Railways.

2021: 22,000 Astra Linux licenses purchased

RUSSIAN RAILWAY OJSC "" on March 11, 2021 announced TAdviser the continuation of the transfer of information infrastructure the holding to. domestic software The company purchased 22 thousand operating system general-purpose licenses Astra Linux included Unified Register of Russian Programs in the and. COMPUTER databases Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media

Russian Railways is transferring jobs to the Russian operating system
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Earlier in 2020, Russian Railways and JSC Greenatom Integrator IT Rosatom signed an agreement on the development of a system of basic services IT infrastructures The Russian for domestic railways using domestic software products. Within the framework of the project, a unified system of basic information services of Russian Railways was created and put into trial operation, based on the solutions of Greenatom (ON support for network services, centralized management of automated workplaces, etc.).

The next stage will be the development of the technology for transferring automated workplaces connected to the unified internal system of Russian Railways to use the domestic operating system. The migration of 5 thousand automated workplaces of Russian Railways employees to Astra Linux will begin in March 2021. The rest of the licenses will find application in the virtual workplace infrastructure.

The plan to switch to domestic software included in the Unified Register of Russian Computer Programs and Databases has been implemented by Russian Railways since 2018. The project office created for its implementation has organized interaction with domestic companies to develop information systems in the interests of Russian Railways that are not inferior to foreign counterparts in functionality and reliability.

During this time, the company's specialists analyzed and tested over 200 domestic software products and platforms for various purposes, including electronic document management and data management systems, EAM and ERP systems, office systems and antispam products, etc. The software products that have passed load testing are approved for further operation in the holding's information infrastructure.

"The connection to the national import substitution project of key state corporations, such as Russian Railways, is a significant event for all market participants. This is a unique opportunity to increase expert experience in terms of translating large-scale infrastructures with complex specifics, to work out new migration mechanisms for domestic products and a huge number of OS scenarios related to the peculiarity of the corporation's business processes, "said Astra Linux CEO Ilya Sivtsev.

"Cooperation with Russian Railways for Greenatom is an important and responsible project. We have been developing our expertise in the nuclear industry for more than 10 years and are now sharing best practices with external customers. Solving such complex problems contributes to the development of the national IT landscape and is an additional incentive for the development of Russian information technologies, "said Alexander Martynenko, First Deputy General Director of Greenatom JSC.

Based on the results of the measures carried out in 2020, domestic software was introduced for a total of more than 277 thousand users in Russian Railways, including business analytics, data and asset management systems, as well as e-mail systems and antispam products.