Assets
The Rosselkhoznadzor is a federal executive body exercising functions of control and supervision in the field of veterinary medicine, quarantine and plant protection, safe handling of pesticides and agrochemicals, ensuring soil fertility, ensuring the quality and safety of grain, cereals, compound feed and components for their production, by-products of grain processing, land relations (with regard to agricultural land), forest relations (with the exception of forests located on lands of specially protected natural areas), functions to protect the public from diseases common to humans and animals. The service was formed in 2004 as a result of the merger of various controlling state bodies and structures.
Structure
Digitalization
2025
Rosselkhoznadzor subjected to DDoS attack
In its Telegram channel, the Rosselkhoznadzor reported[1] about a DDoS attack on its information systems, which was carried out throughout[2] day on October 22.
 | The Rosselkhoznadzor informs that from 8 hours 40 minutes on October 22, 2025, a large-scale targeted DDoS attack was being carried out on the information systems of the Rosselkhoznadzor. There is no threat to the integrity and confidentiality of the data processed in the systems, the ministry said. |  |
The message was published on the evening of October 22, although the attack almost completely ended at about 18:00. In addition, according to the service for monitoring the availability of web resources Detector404 there was no complete network inaccessibility of the Rosselkhoznadzor's web resources - the maximum drawdown of the site's availability was at about 13:00, when 90% of requests were not processed by the agency's website.
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Analysis of Detector404 service messages shows that mainly people complained about the inaccessibility of the Mercury system - this is an automated platform for tracing products subject to veterinary supervision throughout Russia. The department explained to TAdviser that the attack was carried out on the public IP addresses of FGBU VNIIZH, which is the operator of FGIS VetIS (Mercury is one of the components of this system) and Saturn, and FGBU VNIIKR, which is the operator of FGIS Argus-Fito.
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It should be noted that around the same time, the site availability control service recorded an increase in complaints about the operation of the Honest Sign system, which is important for trade. The peak of the number of complaints occurred at 11 o'clock in the morning, when the DDoS attack on the Rosselkhoznadzor was already in full swing. It is possible that problems with Mercury led to delays in the operation of the Honest Sign systems, although network access to the latter's sites was not blocked at all.
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It is piquant that around the same time Roskomnadzor began to slow down the work of WhatsApp[3]. The service graph Detector404 shows that this process began at about 11:30. Moreover, Roskomnadzor said that this slowdown was necessary to counter criminals.
The Rosselkhoznadzor told TAdviser that they do not have information about whether the attack affected the functioning of the Honest Sign system, as well as about the presence of any connection between the attack and the slowdown of WhatsApp. According to the press service of the department, WhatsApp is not used in the work of any of the information systems of the Rosselkhoznadzor.
Launch of a unified agro-industrial analytics system to control the supply of products
In April 2025, the Rosselkhoznadzor announced the completion of the development and transition to the introduction of a digital system of agro-industrial complex analytics, which is designed to visualize supply chains and identify unscrupulous participants in the circulation of food products. The new tool will strengthen control over the traceability of agro-industrial products and will be put into commercial operation throughout the country from June 1, 2025.
It is assumed that the new analytical system will significantly simplify the work of the inspection staff. Mikhail Andreev, head of the Rosselkhoznadzor's Digital Transformation and Information Security Department, noted that earlier, when incidents were identified, inspectors were forced to take the number of the veterinary certificate, switch to the Mercury system and manually track supply chains. With the introduction of the visualization mechanism, this process will be automated - inspectors will be able to visually track the movement of products before and after the detected violation.
In 2025, the Rosselkhoznadzor plans to develop four fundamentally new scenario models of artificial intelligence: the fat balance of milk, the search for suspicious sites, an assessment model for confirmed violations and the identification of confusing supply chains. The possibility of visualizing counterparties will also be implemented, taking into account their good faith, which will make it possible to identify clusters of violators and indirectly identify affiliates.
Along with this, the service is improving automatic control over the actions of agricultural producers. The issuance of production electronic veterinary certificates will become impossible if the organization does not have a confirmed supervised facility with the appropriate type of activity. To confirm the sites and facilities, an electronic digital signature of the chief veterinarian of the subject of the Russian Federation or an authorized person will be required.[4]
Digitalization in Rosselkhoznadzor: Systems control the safety of raw materials, animal health and finished products
The Rosselkhoznadzor has introduced comprehensive digital systems to monitor the safety of livestock products at all stages of production - from raw materials to the finished product. This was announced in February 2025 by the adviser to the head of the department Elena Tsvetkova.
According to her, the introduction of digital control systems began in 2009 in order to ensure the traceability of food products. During this period, Rosselkhoznadzor became the most digitalized supervisory authority in the country.
Elena Tsvetkova stressed that the department monitors almost the entire process - from the safety of raw materials and animal health to the release of finished products from the livestock industry.
Rosselkhoznadzor uses several key information systems for control and monitoring in the agro-industrial sector. The main platform for ensuring the safety of food products is the Mercury system. In the field of veterinary supervision, the federal state information system FGIS "Vetis" operates. Additionally, digital solutions have been introduced to check the quality of raw materials, monitor the state of animal health and track the parameters of finished products.
More than 500 thousand companies engaged in the production of various food products operate in Russia. The adviser to the head of the Rosselkhoznadzor noted that without digital systems, it would be impossible to manually control such a number of enterprises.
For each type of supervision, a separate digital system has been developed that allows you to track the life cycle of any product. This ensures full control of the production chain from the field to the counter.
The central place in the digital control system is occupied by Mercury, integrated into the Federal State Information System in the field of veterinary medicine. This complex allows monitoring of the entire livestock production chain.[5]
2024: How the digitalization of the Rosselkhoznadzor is going. The head of the service reported to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin
Rosselkhoznadzor is actively developing information systems, as well as introducing artificial intelligence tools that increase efficiency. On May 28, 2024, the head of the department, Sergei Dankvert, reported to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
According to Dankvert, the created analytical modules help solve many issues and greatly simplify the work. The current information systems make it possible to assess the ratio of production and consumption of agricultural products in each region, to form ratings of suppliers, to identify unnecessary intermediaries and alternative producers. Due to this, the effectiveness of taking preventive measures has increased 13 times.
| | Today we can do without scheduled checks, because they do not give us almost the results that we have thanks to the analysis of the information received, "says Dankvert. | |
As of May 2024, the Rosselkhoznadzor launched five modules based on AI. Such tools facilitate the work of specialists who analyze certain facts in order to identify various violations, such as changes in shelf life, lack of raw materials, inconsistency in the production of raw materials with product volumes, etc. In addition, AI tools make it possible to identify abnormal routes of movement of goods, assess the effectiveness of the use of vehicles, etc. In general, the introduction of AI technologies can significantly reduce the response time to all kinds of violations.
The head of the Rosselkhoznadzor also said that the development of digitalization continues in new regions. The service, in particular, provides local agricultural producers with full access to electronic veterinary and phytosanitary supporting documents.[6]
2022: Establishment of the Department for Digital Transformation and Information Security
As it became known at the end of October 2022, the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision (Rosselkhoznadzor) creates a digital transformation and information security (IS) department in its structure.
As reported in the explanatory note to the draft government decree, which was developed by the Rosselkhoznadzor, the initiative "was prepared in order to ensure the creation of an independent specialized structural unit (department) in the Rosselkhoznadzor, which performs functions for digital transformation and information security." Thus, the number of departments in the main areas of activity of the service, which can be created in the central office of the Rosselkhoznadzor, increases from six to seven.
To form the staff of the new department, the document provides for an increase in the maximum number of federal state civil servants of the central office of the Rosselkhoznadzor by reducing vacant civil service posts in the territorial departments of the department.
The new office will carry out information security functions, including detecting, preventing and eliminating the consequences of computer attacks and responding to computer incidents. It is noted that during 2022, the information resources of the Rosselkhoznadzor were repeatedly subjected to large DDoS attacks.
By October 25, 2022, the draft resolution on the creation of a department for digital transformation and information security in the structure of the Rosselkhoznadzor was agreed with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Rosselkhoznadzor, and positive conclusions of the Ministry of Justice and the Accounts Chamber were also received for the document, the Rosselkhoznadzor notes.[7]
2020: Provision of issue numbers for introduction of UHF RFID technology in animal husbandry to Siltek Group of Companies
The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision of the Russian Federation (Rosselkhoznadzor) and Siltek Group of Companies signed an Agreement on Cooperation to ensure the labeling, identification and accounting of productive animals belonging to agricultural organizations of all forms of ownership. This was announced on May 26, 2020 by the Siltek Group of Companies. Read more here.
2018: Interaction with ISBC on the creation of the animal internet in Russia
The ISBC group of companies became the first independent organization in Russia to be granted the official right to identify animals by the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision (Rosselkhoznadzor). This was reported to TAdviser on December 19, 2018 by ISBC representatives. According to them, as part of pilot projects, ISBC plans to create electronic animal identification and accounting systems that provide radio frequency (RFID) identification for veterinary, zootechnical and breeding purposes. Read more here.
History
2025: Appointment of Deputy Head Roman Miloradov
Roman Miloradov, head of the service department for Moscow, Moscow and Tula regions, has been appointed the new deputy head of the Rosselkhoznadzor. This was announced in June 2025 by the head of the Rosselkhoznadzor Sergei Dankvert. The new deputy head replaced Anton Karmazin, who had held the post since 2020, in this position - he was relieved of his post at the end of April 2025. Roman Miloradov in his new position will oversee the work of several GIS. Read more here
Notes
- ↑ to the Rosselkhoznadzor about a DDoS attack on the Service's information systems
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- ↑ in Russia RBC
- ↑ Rosselkhoznadzor created a new system of agro-industrial complex analytics
- ↑ Diagnostics "from the field to the counter": Rosselkhoznadzor introduced a digital system
- ↑ Mikhail Mishustin's meeting with the head of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision Sergei Dankvert
- ↑ The Rosselkhoznadzor will have a department for digital transformation and information security - a draft resolution
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