Federal Railway Transport Agency (Roszheldor)
Since 2004
Russia
Central Federal District of the Russian Federation
Moscow
105064, Staraya Basmannaya street, 11.
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The Federal Agency for Railway Transport (Roszheldor) is a federal executive body that performs functions for the provision of public services, state property management, as well as law enforcement functions in the field of railway transport. Roszheldor is a federal agency subordinate to the Ministry of Transport of Russia. Roszheldor can create departmental security and departmental fire protection.
Roszheldor was formed on March 9, 2004, which was the last stage in the liquidation of the Ministry of Railways of Russia. In accordance with the concept of administrative reform and structural reform of railways, the functions of developing state policy and issuing regulations passed to the Ministry of Transport of Russia, the functions of law enforcement, state property management and the provision of public services to Roszheldor, supervisory functions to Rostransnadzor, and economic functions to OJSC Russian Railways.
Roszheldor has the following structural units:
- administrative and personnel management;
- Transport Security Administration;
- infrastructure and transportation management;
- the Department of Economics and Finance;
- management of educational institutions and legal support.
History
2024
Ex-deputy head of the security department of Roszheldor received 14 years in prison for a bribe in exchange for the purchase of software and hardware systems
On October 28, 2024, the Soviet District Court of Ryazan sentenced Pavel Titov, the former deputy head of the transport security department of the Federal Agency for Railway Transport (Roszheldor), to 14 years in a maximum security colony for taking a bribe on an especially large scale. This was reported by the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Ryazan region. In addition to imprisonment, Titov is obliged to pay a fine of ₽445,2 million and is deprived of the right to hold positions in state bodies for a period of 10 years. Read more here.
Alexandra Sakharov - the new head of Roszheldor
At the end of August 2024, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a document appointing Alexander Sakharov as the new head of the Federal Agency for Railway Transport (Roszheldor). He replaced Alexei Druzhinin, who was relieved of this position at his own request. Read more here.
2023: Creation of Novorossiya Railways
At the end of May 2023, the Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree on the creation of the federal state unitary enterprise Novorossiya Railways, which will unite the railways Donetsk and Luganskaya People's Republics Zaporozhskaya Hersonskaya regions. More. here
2022: Alexey Druzhinin - the new head of Roszheldor
At the end of January 2022, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree approving Alexei Druzhinin as the new head of the Federal Agency for Railway Transport (Roszheldor). His predecessor Igor Koval was relieved of his post in December 2021, and his duties were then transferred to the deputy head of the agency, Alexander Ivanov. Read more here.
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