Leningrad region buys tablets at Aurora for officials

In June 2023, it became known about the purchase of tablet computers on the Russian Aurora operating system for officials of the Leningrad Region. The corresponding tender was announced by the Administration of Government Affairs of the Leningrad Region. It is planned to spend 600 thousand rubles on the purchase of devices.

The terms of reference state that the tablets should be equipped with quad-core processors and a built-in video camera. The domestic OS Aurora is indicated as the operating system. At the same time, it is not clear how much equipment is planned to be purchased, although the description of the lot says that each will cost 34 thousand rubles.

Leningrad region buys tablets for Aurora OS for officials

According to the publication "Telesputnik," this is the second attempt by the authorities of the Leningrad Region to purchase tablets for "Aurora." For the first time there was an amount of 680 thousand rubles, that application was rejected.

In early June 2023, RIA Novosti, citing Rostelecom senior vice president Kirill Menshov, announced that Russian civil servants could begin to be massively transferred to smartphones running the domestic Aurora OS. By the beginning of June 2023, the purchase of 500 thousand to 2 million was discussed. For all the years of Aurora's existence, about 500 thousand smartphones of such devices have been released, Menshov said.

Earlier, the president Russia Vladimir Putin instructed to transfer tablets with Aurora OS to schools and hospitals, which were used in the census. Then Ministry of Digital Science she developed proposals for digitalization. In accordance with them, 19.4 billion rubles were proposed to be allocated for the purchase of 700 thousand tablets for doctors and teachers on the Russian Aurora operating system, as well as the development of applications for it.^[1]

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