Unified system of identification and authentication in the infrastructure of the electronic government of the Russian Federation (ESIA)

ESIA is an independent information system, a single "window" of access for citizens, business and executive representatives to the e-government infrastructure, as well as to other information systems connected to the Interdepartmental Electronic Interaction System (CMEV).

The key function of the ESIA is to provide the user with a single account to access many significant state information systems. The account allows you to access any portals using ESIA under the same login and password.

A single account allows you to simply and quickly pay taxes, enroll a child in kindergarten, find out the state of the pension account, order many other public services. Business, among other things, received the possibility of simple authorization on the electronic trading platform, representatives of government agencies - in the State Automated Information System "Management."

Why ESIA is needed

The system will eliminate the need for citizens to store many logins/passwords to receive public services electronically. Once registered in any state information system, a citizen will be able to use the received login and password on other departmental resources. For example, citizens registered on the public services portal will be able to use the login and password from their personal account to access the information systems of departments using the websites of departments.

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In addition, to access state resources, it will be possible to use various electronic cards provided by mobile and digital television operators - any means about which information will be in the system.

Single Digital Profile

A "digital twin" is a virtual copy of a real object, which is the most complete set of data about an object and its behavior patterns in various situations. Digital twins:

• Citizen (Digital profile of a citizen of the Russian Federation)
• Organization
• Settlement
• Region

Identifiers and electronic signature

Main article: Electronic signature and access to the portal of public services

Initially, the insurance number of the individual personal account (SNILS) was used as a single identifier (login) of information about applicants in the system.

Then it became possible to use a mobile phone number or email address as a login.

The place of the system in the government's IT infrastructure

The identification and authentication system is included in the infrastructure that provides information technology interaction of information systems used to provide state and municipal services in electronic form. This infrastructure also includes:

• a public services portal that provides citizens with access to services in electronic form, and
• system of interdepartmental interaction (SMEV), with the help of which information is exchanged for the provision of public services.

The system not only provides citizens and legal entities with access to electronic government, but also is used by officials when exchanging information, as well as information systems when exchanging automatically.

In accordance with its purpose and electronic government information security policy, the system does not accumulate data related to personal information of citizens. The system is designed to synchronize the use of numerous credentials that are maintained by various departments in accordance with their authority.

History

2023: Integration with the personal account "Cian.ru"

Cian launched the ability to identify users through Public services. The company announced this on March 27, 2023.

This will confirm the account using the Unified Identification and Authentication System (ESIA), which in turn will help protect the user's personal data, improve the quality of use of the service and reduce the number of fake accounts. The association of accounts will occur exclusively with the consent of the user. Read more here.

2021

Integration plan with Yandex services

In Yandex services, within the framework of a partnership with the Ministry of Digital Science, it will be possible to authorize through ESIA, that is, through Public services. This became known on November 23, 2021. Read more here.

Integration with hh.ru, Авто.ру and Cian.ru

On November 24, 2021, the Ministry of Digital Science announced the expansion of the possibility of using e-government infrastructure for business. Users of the Public services portal with a confirmed account were able to perform legally significant actions on commercial sites by authenticating using the Unified Identification and Authentication System (ESIA), through which they enter the State Public services portal.

As part of the pilot project, which will last until July 1, 2022, the ability to enter through the ESIA first of all became available to users of such resources as, and hh.ru Авто.ру. In the CIAN.RU near future, they will be joined by,, Avito Petersburg Sales Company the search service " real estate Floors" and a number of others. In total, as of November 2021, ten companies responsible for the operation of 12 sites and applications have joined the project. The Ministry of Digital Engineering has developed a target model and architecture for interaction with business sites.

This is the first important step towards creating conditions for concluding transactions, signing contracts and performing other legally significant actions on the Internet using reliable authentication through the Unified Identification and Authentication System. This will increase confidence on the part of citizens and the level of security of remote interaction with business, and will also help solve the problem of using aggregators of goods and services, job search resources and social networks for fraudulent purposes, - said Alexander Smirnov, project manager for the integration of ESIA with commercial platforms of the Ministry of Digital Industry of Russia.

With such a scheme of interaction between individuals and legal entities on the basis of a secure state information system, which is the ESIA, data citizens will remain under protection, and states the user will be able to decide for himself which service, to what extent and for what purposes he is ready to provide information about himself, as well as if he wants to revoke the right to process. personal data

The portal is Public services actively developing and in terms of audience size is already comparable to some social networks through which you can log in to hh.ru. We are glad that thanks to our connection to the ESIA, we give Russians the opportunity to connect their profiles on hh.ru and Public services for even easier access to our website, "said Vitaly Terentyev, GR director of the hh.ru. - Cross-authorization between hh.ru and Public services will help users in search of new work, expand employment opportunities for citizens and reduce search times. In the future, as part of an experiment with the Ministry of Digital Industry, we plan to add a similar function for employer companies.

The ability to verify users using Public services is the next stage in the development of ad services. We expect that integration with ESIA will help reduce the number of fraudulent transactions, and will also lead to the fact that transactions will become more convenient for both the seller and the buyer, - commented Pavel Alyoshin, General Director of Yandex.Vertials (includes the Авто.ру service).

Convenient search, provision of financial instruments and safe quick closing of real estate transactions online are the main and most important tasks for Cian.ru. The completion of the first stage of the experiment is really another big step towards the convenience and safety of our users. Further integration with ESIA within the framework of the second stage of the experiment will make it possible to make better our products for online selection of mortgage offers from the largest banks using the service "Cian.ru. Mortgage," as well as remote conduct and registration of transactions through the service "Cian.ru. Deal." In addition, it will help reduce the number of fraudulent activities that any technological service has to deal with. We are glad to be part of the pilot project of the Ministry of Digital Science and build a dialogue with the state and the market, which in the future will contribute to improving the convenience and safety for citizens and businesses, - said the general director of Cian.ru Maxim Melnikov.

Legal entities, individual entrepreneurs and citizens participate in the experiment on a voluntary basis. In case of positive results of the experiment, the possibility of connecting to the ESIA can be extended to other commercial resources.

2020

Connecting the portal "Infoklinika.Ru"

On December 14, 2020, it became known that the Infoklinika.RU portal is now centrally connected to the ESIA (a unified authentication and authorization system, more often called by users as authorization through "Public services"). Read more here.

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications intends to connect Avito, Cian.ru and Авто.ру to public services

On June 2, 2020, it became known about the intention of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications to connect aggregators of goods, advertisements and services (Avito, Авто.ру, Cian.ru, etc.) to the Unified Identification and Authentication System ( ESIA) of the public services portal in order to verify the identity of users. A corresponding draft government decree has been prepared.

On July 1, 2020, the Ministry of Communications plans to start an annual experiment and create an interdepartmental working group for it, which will include owners of aggregators, representatives of the Ministry of Communications,,,,, and Ministry of Economic Development Ministry of Industry and Trade Ministry of Construction Ministry of Transport. Federal Registration Service MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS FSB Connection to the ESIA will be voluntary and free, writes. Kommersant

Ad aggregators were offered identification on the public services portal

The press service of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications told the newspaper that aggregators may need to refine the systems already operating at enterprises. The state will not have access to user data in ad services, the source of the publication in the ministry noted.

"Авто.ру" said that it considers it promising to register with the help of public services. The site has already been implementing a similar project together with the Moscow mayor's office since the spring of 2020, launching the possibility of registration using the portal mos.ru. Avito believes that the initiative can facilitate internal document management, as well as make user interaction more convenient and safer.

The transition to authorization through ESIA, according to the Cian.ru, will increase the level of trust in customers and sellers and reduce fraud.

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications is unlikely to deliberately collect data from aggregator users, said Qrator Labs technical director Artem Gavrichenkov. However, according to him, if necessary and in the absence of two-factor authentication, the competent authorities through the ESIA will be able to access this information.^[1]

2019: State IT systems in Russia technically not ready to implement digital profile

are State IT systems Russia not technically ready to implement a digital profile. This was announced on December 11, 2019 by the publication RBC with reference to the prepared Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media draft resolution. Government of the Russian Federation

The agency proposes to change the rules for using the Unified Identification and Authentication System (ESIA), obliging the authorities to provide it with up-to-date information about citizens within 24 hours. By December 11, they are obliged to promptly provide data only if they have the technical capability.

In Russia, technically not ready for the introduction of a digital profile

This reservation, according to the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, prevents the maintenance of information in the ESIA in the current state and does not allow users of the system (including state authorities, banks, etc.) "to operate with reliable and sufficient information about the validity of an individual's passport as of the date of appeal, as well as other information."

To implement the idea, the modernization of departmental information systems will be required. The costs for each department will be determined individually. In order for them to have time to update their IT systems, the deadline for the entry into force of the decree was postponed from January 1 to September 1, 2020.

In a cover letter, the deputy head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications Maxim Parshin indicated that the innovation, among other things, "will ensure the implementation of the measures provided for in the framework of the concept and architecture of the digital profile - ESIA 2.0." But government agencies are technically not ready to introduce a digital profile, a source in the government apparatus told the publication.

If they were ready, a digital profile would not be needed, this is not an end in itself. Real-time data sharing between federal executive bodies and citizens is the goal. The digital profile serves as a tool for achieving it, - said the interlocutor of RBC.[2]

2018

Almost 84 million people registered in the ESIA

As reported on December 5, 2018, Rostelecom"," identifications authentications UIAS more than half of the population is registered in the Unified System and () - Russia almost 84 million people. The system is actively used: since the beginning of 2018, more than 1.5 billion authorizations have been made using the ESIA account. This is almost twice the figure for 2017. The system has become a single point of access for citizens to more than 2 thousand state and commercial portals.

Among the regions where the share of citizens registered in the system over 14 years old exceeds 90%, the leaders are the Nenets, Chukotka, Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs, the Republic of Tuva, Kursk and Sakhalin regions. Over the year, the number of citizens registered in the ESIA in these regions increased by 10-15%. Also, the leading regions included the Altai Republic, the Magadan Region and the Jewish Autonomous Region with an increase of more than 30%.

The Republic of Kalmykia joined the number of regions with an indicator above 70% in 2018, where the share of users registered in the ESIA increased by almost 35% over the year, the Republic of Adygea and Kamchatka Territory with an increase of about 25%, as well as the Khabarovsk Territory, the Republic of Bashkortostan, Mari El and Sakha (Yakutia), Kirov and Oryol regions with an increase of more than 20%.

More than 54% of the total registered in the ESIA are women. Over 40% of "electronic" citizens are over 45 years old. They are followed by Russians aged 25 to 34 (more than 25%) and 35 to 44 (22%). The share of users aged 18 to 24 years is almost 10%.

As of December 2018, more than 29 thousand federal, regional and municipal services in electronic form are available on the Unified Portal of State Councils (www.gosuslugi.ru). Of these, 23 thousand require a confirmed account, which more than 60% of Portal users have - this is almost 52 million citizens. Most often, Russians confirm the ESIA account in Service Centers - more than 43 million people used this method. Almost 6.2 million users received an identity confirmation code by letter from the Russian Post. The online banking confirmation service implemented in March 2018 is gaining popularity - this channel turned out to be in demand among almost 2.2 million people. With the help of a qualified electronic signature, the account was confirmed by more than 450 thousand citizens.

The state customer for the creation and operation of the ESIA, as well as the system operator, is the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation. The development of the system is carried out by PJSC Rostelecom within the framework of the implementation of the state program "Information Society (2017-2030)" and RT Labs JSC is the sole contractor for the development of e-government infrastructure in accordance with Government Order No. 812-r dated 28.04.2017.

More than 66 million Russians registered in ESIA

As of February 8, 2018, almost half of the Russian population - more than 66 million citizens - have an account in the Unified Identification and Authentication System (ESIA). In 2017, the number of "electronic" population of the country increased by more than 66%. According to annual statistics, about 2 million users were registered monthly in the ESIA.

In the regional UIASMinistry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media ranking of Russia, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug is in the lead, which took only 80th place a year ago. Over the year, the "electronic" population of the region increased by more than 77% and amounts to 95.5%. In second place is the Republic of Tuva with an annual increase of almost 30% and a share of 93.5%. The Chukotka Autonomous Okrug also demonstrated record results - more than 60%. The region for the year "rose" from 71st to 3rd place with an indicator of 87.1%. The top 5 closes the Khanty-Mansiysk and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs - 85.2% and 81%, respectively.

The number of citizens registered in the ESIA over 14 years old exceeds 70% in 5 more constituent entities of the Russian Federation: Kursk, Tula and Sakhalin regions, as well as in the Republics of Dagestan and Altai. In the Tambov, Vologda regions and in the Udmurt Republic, this figure is almost achieved and exceeds 69%.

ESIA is a single point of access to more than 4 thousand state and commercial portals, the number of which has grown 2017 times over the 4 year. Almost 1 billion authorizations were made through the ESIA, more than a quarter of which users performed to enter the Unified Portal of Public Services (EPGU).

As of February 2018, more than 27 thousand public services of the federal, regional and municipal level are available at the EPGU. To receive about 23 thousand of them, a confirmed account is required, the number of owners of which is about 60% of users of the Unified Portal of Public Services - more than 40 million citizens. You can confirm your identity in any User Service Center.

2017

Biometrics, Cloud EP, Money Transfers, and Business Data Access

At the end of October 2017, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications shared plans to expand the capabilities of the Unified Identification and Authentication System in the infrastructure of the electronic government of the Russian Federation (ESIA).^[3]

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Introduction of biometrics

In particular, the Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation Alexey Kozyrev announced plans to introduce support to the ESIA from the beginning of 2018. biometrics At the first stage, it is supposed to implement voice and face recognition, and subsequently add the ability to identify by fingerprints and the iris of the eyes. According to the deputy minister, he is already MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Russia conducting relevant developments.

While identification in the ESIA is carried out using a login-password pair or using a qualified electronic signature (electronic key issued by an accredited certification center).

Business Data Access

At the same time, it is planned to open access to personal data of Russian citizens for commercial organizations, primarily financial ones, which are most prepared for electronic interaction, and then for representatives of other industries. In particular, organizations will be able to access the following personal data: a citizen's profile on the public services portal, data on pension savings, tax payments, etc. Citizens, in turn, will be given the opportunity to regulate the use of their data through a special ESIA web interface: give and withdraw their consent to their processing by commercial organizations, receive notifications about the facts of their processing, etc.

Cloud Transaction EP

In addition, the Ministry of Communications plans to implement through the ESIA the ability to sign transactions in electronic format. At the same time, due to the complexity of the process of obtaining a qualified electronic signature, it is planned to provide citizens with a cloud signature service. According to Alexei Kozyrev, two Russian companies whose names have not been disclosed already have the necessary developments to implement the service. At the same time, one of them is in the process of obtaining permits from the FSTEC of Russia.

Remittances without payment systems

The most ambitious task voiced by Kozyrev is to create a new address space. According to the idea of ​ ​ the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, a unique identifier will allow you to make a money transfer or send a registered letter to a citizen, regardless of his location. It is planned that citizens will be able to use the ESIA to conduct financial transactions with each other - the relevant work is already being carried out by the Central Bank and the Fintech Association. The unique identifier can be a passport number, TIN, SNILS, phone number and other personal data of the user.

To implement the task, a special platform for interaction between banks will be required. At the same time, the capabilities of payment systems for such transfers will not be required, the deputy minister said.

Connecting mobile operators to e-government infrastructure

In October 2017, Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation Alexey Kozyrev held a meeting of the Subcommittee on the Use of Information Technologies in the provision of state and municipal services to the Government Commission on the Use of Information Technologies to Improve the Quality of Life and Business Conditions. One of the main issues of the meeting was the connection of mobile radiotelephone operators to the Unified Identification and Authentication System (ESIA) and the Interdepartmental Electronic Interaction System (SMEV), which are part of the e-government infrastructure.

"After connecting to the ESIA and SMEV, operators will be able to fulfill the requirements of the law and quickly clear subscriber databases of anonymous users. In addition, connecting to the ESIA will allow operators to develop remote interaction with subscribers, "said Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Russia Mikhail Bykovsky, Deputy Director of the Department for Regulation of Radio Frequencies and Communication Networks.

ESIA - a single point of access to digital services of departments

On September 8, 2017, during a meeting of the Subcommittee on the use of IT in the provision of state and municipal services under the chairmanship of the Minister of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation Nikolai Nikiforov, the possibility of user authorization was considered when receiving information from state information systems exclusively through the Unified Identification and Authentication System (ESIA).

Subcommittee on the Use of Information Technologies in the Provision of State and Municipal Services, September 8, 2017, Moscow. Photo: Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of Russia

The proposal for unified access came from representatives. Arkhangelsk region We are talking about such information as, for example, requests for information about fines TRAFFIC POLICE through the official website State traffic inspectorates MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Russia and the results of the unified state exam through the relevant official websites in. Internet The Subcommittee instructed to work out the issue of unified access to information from state information systems through the ESIA of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Ministry of Education and Science and together with the Federal Service for Supervision in the Field formations and Science (). Rosobrnadzor

During the meeting, the representative of the Kursk region reported on the increase in the number of public services ordered by the population in electronic form. So, for the whole of 2016, citizens ordered 200 thousand services, and over the past months of 2017, more than 270 thousand applications were submitted. In total, in the Kursk region, more than 70% of the population is registered with the ESIA. The region's proposal to improve regulatory documents to provide fully electronic services for such popular services as, for example, issuing a hunting permit was supported. According to the results of the meeting of the subcommittee, the regions are recommended to take into account the experience of the Kursk region to achieve the share of citizens using the electronic mechanism for obtaining public services.

50 million Russian citizens

The Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation reported in June 2017 that 50 million Russian citizens registered in the Unified Identification and Authentication System (ESIA). Registration in this system makes it possible to receive public services in electronic form. Since the beginning of the year, the number of users of the Unified Portal of State and Municipal Services (EPGU) has grown by 10 million people.

On average, in 2017, more than 1.5 million new users are registered at EPGU monthly. At the end of 2016, the total number of users of EPGU reached 40 million people. In 2015, 22.5 million people were registered in the ESIA, in 2014 - 13 million, in 2013 - 6.9 million people.

More than 350 federal government services are available electronically at EPGU. The most popular services are checking judicial and tax debts, as well as fines of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate (traffic police), ordering an extract from an individual personal account with the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, registering vehicles, obtaining driver's licenses, issuing a passport and issuing certificates of the presence or absence of a criminal record.

When ordering public services at EPGU and paying the state duty, a reduction factor of 0.7 applies. In addition, payment of taxes through EPGU guarantees the closure of accruals as soon as possible.

Russian banks will test remote customer identification through ESIA

In February 2017, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications published^[4], a draft government decree on conducting a pilot project in 2017-2018 to identify individual customers by banks using ESIA in order to remotely open bank accounts and provide other banking services.

The agency proposes, after a single full identification in the system, to enable citizens to obtain a universal login and password working in all credit institutions. This will allow citizens to undergo the electronic identification procedure remotely via the Internet without visiting bank branches.

This initiative should increase the availability of financial services for the population and stimulate competition in the financial market, according to the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications.

If the pilot is successful, then in 2018 remote identification should become available to all banks

Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Olga Skorobogatova at the IX Ural Forum "Information Security of the Financial Sphere" in February said that the project will be carried out jointly with several banks, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, the Central Bank and Rosfinmonitoring^[5].

The Central Bank explained that the primary identification will remain face-to-face and the client will have to pass it in the bank in accordance with the existing norms. After identification, this information will fall into the ESIA, which will become the central infrastructure for storing information. Further, if the client turns to another bank for a service, he will not have to undergo face-to-face identification, this bank will simply turn to the ESIA.

Remote identification is first planned to be used for transactions of individuals with accounts, deposits, transfers, obtaining loans, providing information on the account. After the pilot, this list can be expanded, Skorobogatova said.

To carry out the project, it is necessary to amend the law and introduce the concept of "remote identification." Amendments to the law on combating income laundering and other regulations are expected in the first half of 2017.

2016

Monthly increase in users of electronic public services exceeded two million people

As of the end of November 2016, 37.7 million people were registered in the Unified Identification and Authentication System (ESIA). The increase in users of electronic public services in November 2016 amounted to 2.4 million people. This is a record growth for the entire existence of the system.

Integration with the system of interdepartmental electronic interaction (SMEV) version 3.0 to date has completed the majority of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The remaining two subjects - the Republic of Ingushetia and the Tver region - need to switch to a new version of the system.

The Ministry of Communications of Russia also presented a rating of regions by the share of citizens registered in the ESIA. The leading regions that reached the target of 50% include the Republic of Tuva (61.1%), Tula (59%) and Kurskaya (54.8%) regions, Yamalo-Nenets (53.7%) and Khanty-Mansi (53.5%) autonomous districts, as well as Tambov region (51.6%).

Due to the low level of citizens registered in the ESIA, the Karachay-Cherkess and Chechen Republics, the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the city of Sevastopol, as well as the Republics of Dagestan, Crimea and Ingushetia, it was recommended to strengthen work on informing citizens about the advantages of providing state and municipal services in electronic form.

More than 350 million authorizations were made by users through the ESIA system in 2016

In one minute, with the help of ESIA, about 3 thousand users go to the federal and regional portals of public services, the sites of the Russian Public Initiative (ROI), Rosreestr, the Federal Tax Service and the Pension Fund, connect to Wi-Fi in the Moscow metro. If at the beginning of 2014 about 170 information systems were connected to the ESIA, then as of November 2016 - already about 1000 participants.

ESIA subscriber base demonstrates:

• at the beginning of 2012, about 1.4 million citizens were registered in the system,
• in 2015, their number increased almost tenfold,
• and as of November 2016, about 35.5 million users have already been recorded.

"ESIA implements the principle of a single entry point into state and other services for citizens and legal entities under one account. Thus, for electronic interaction with the state, there is no need to use different logins and passwords. The potential of the system opens up opportunities not only for convenient receipt of public services, but also in the future - financial services, as well as solutions to a variety of life situations, "comments Alexander Chechin, Head of the Development Department of the Electronic Government Department of PJSC Rostelecom.

Statistics for summer 2016

In the summer of 2016 Russia , there are about 15 thousand points of registration of citizens in the Unified Identification System and (authentications ESIA), of which almost 85% are accounted for. MPSC The use of methodological recommendations in the MPSC will ensure the widespread use of a culture of using electronic public services.

As of the end of July 2016, more than 30 million people have already been registered in the ESIA. The increase in users of electronic public services in July 2016 amounted to 1 million people. The total number of visits to the EPGU and the mobile application of the portal in July 2016 amounted to 16.6 million.

The leaders of the regions, which was first compiled according to an updated methodology for calculating the share of citizens registered in the ESIA, were the Tula region (53.2%), the Republic of Tuva (51.5%), the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (45.8%), the Tambov region (45.3%), the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (44.6%) and the Kursk region (44%).

ESIA includes support for authorization of FSSP website users

On August 18, 2016, the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation announced the availability to users of the official website of the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) of authorization through a login and password from the Unified Portal of State and Municipal Services (EPGU). This will help citizens use the services of the department electronically without additional registration on the FSSP website .

As of August 18, 2016, the unified identification and authentication system (ESIA) is used by all regional portals of public services, websites of the Federal Tax Service, the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography, the Federal Treasury, the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, official sites for posting information about tenders and public procurement, the website of the Russian Public Initiative, the state information system of housing and communal services, as well as electronic state libraries.

In July 2015, it became possible to pass identification using an account on the Unified Portal of Public Services in the free Wi-Fi network of the Moscow metro. It is also possible to register using an account with the ESIA at Sheremetyevo International Airport, Aeroexpress terminals, a number of Moscow fairs, at the Spartak stadium and in the Kidzania children's game training park.

Departments and regions using ESIA, thereby providing citizens with the convenience of obtaining electronic public services. This allows applicants to use a single login and password on any official departmental or regional portals. Therefore, it is so important that another federal department has joined the ESIA. Newly created state portals will also have to connect to the system. Vladimir Averbakh, Director of the Electronic Government Development Department of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of Russia

2015

Banks got the opportunity to register citizens with the ESIA

In August, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications told TAdviser that banks began to connect citizens to the ESIA. Some departments became participants in the pilot project

• HKF Bank,
• KHMB Otkritie (formerly Khanty-Mansiysk Bank),
• Tinkoff Bank,
• Sovcombank,
• Alta-Banka,
• Bank of Moscow.

Banks can use an electronic statement from a pension account to check information about the income of potential customers. If a citizen already has an ESIA account, he can receive this statement online at the time of contacting the bank and provide it to an employee of a credit institution.

If there is no account, the bank employee will help to create it (by checking the passport data of the citizen), after which he will be able to provide the bank with the necessary statement.

Growth stages

On March 12, 2015, Rostelecom announced information about the number of citizens registered in the Unified Identification and Authentication System.

Since the end of 2014, the number of registered users of the system has grown by 9.4% and amounted to 14.2 million people. Of these, 15% of users used simplified registration, 22% used standard registration, 62% - confirmed by a personal visit. About 140 thousand people are registered with the ESIA every seven days.

Interaction in ESIA, 2013

The number of legal entities registered in the ESIA is increasing: this figure has grown by 3.8% since the end of 2014 and amounted to 96 thousand.

At the beginning of March 2015, the ESIA portal was most actively used:

• Primorsky Territory with a penetration rate of 33.82%,
• Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra - 29.33%,
• Tyumen region - 28.06%,
• Kaliningrad region - 27.86%
• Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug - 22.89%.

A small number of citizens are registered with the ESIA:

• Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (penetration rate - 3.47%),
• Republic of Ingushetia (2.58%),
• Kabardino-Balkar Republic (2.46%).

ESIA updated for certification centers

On March 19, 2015, the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation announced the possibility of accredited certification centers (CA) to make an entry in the Unified Identification and Authentication System (ESIA) information on the qualified certificates of electronic signature verification keys issued by them, data on user registration in ESIA.

The entry of information into the ESIA is implemented in accordance with the requirements of Part 5 of Art. 18 of Federal Law No. 63-FZ "On Electronic Signature" of April 6, 2011.

As of March 19, 2015, the service is available for accredited certification centers in the Unified System of Interdepartmental Interaction (SMEV) for integration and debugging, in accordance with the SMEV regulations.

Explanations on the algorithm for connecting to the service have been prepared for organizations, including accredited certification centers.

The number of registered in the ESIA increased by 2.7 million at the end of 2015

The number of citizens authorized in the Unified Identification and Authentication System (ESIA) in November and December 2015 increased by a total of 2.7 million. During this period, the system demonstrated the highest user growth rate for its entire existence.

As of the end of 2015, almost 22.5 million people were registered in the system. In total, in 2015, 9.5 million citizens of the Russian Federation opened accounts in the ESIA. Of these, 21.5% of citizens used simplified registration, 22% used standard registration, 56.5% confirmed by a personal visit to an authorized organization.

About 26 thousand people register with the ESIA every day. A new user appears in the system every three seconds.

Primorsky Krai became the leaders in registration with the ESIA in 2015 - 47.25% of the region's residents have accounts in the system. This is followed by the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra - 41.32%, the Tyumen region - 39.17%, the Kaliningrad region - 39.05% and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug - 34.92%.

To move to the provision of state and municipal services in electronic form, citizens and public authorities were provided with a tool for convenient and safe online identification. It was the ESIA, the purpose of which is to streamline and centralize the processes of registration, identification, authentication and authorization of users.

2012: Commissioning Plan

The customer, operator and coordinator of the system is the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of Russia. The ministry was instructed to put the system into operation by April 15, 2012. Federal executive authorities and state extra-budgetary funds - until April 15, 2012 to ensure the transition to the use of the system, regional government agencies - are recommended to use this system on their portals.

2011: ESIA Requirements: Government Decree

Government Decree No. 977 of November 28, 2011 approved the requirements for a unified identification and authentication system in the e-government infrastructure.

ESIA requirements:

1. Federal State Information System "Unified System of Identification and Authentication in Infrastructure, Providing Information Technology Interaction of Information Systems Used to Provide State and Municipal Services in Electronic Form" (hereinafter referred to as the Unified Identification and Authentication System) shall provide authorized access for information interaction participants in the Unified Identification and Authentication System (hereinafter referred to as participants in information interaction) to information contained in state information systems, municipal information systems and other information systems for the following purposes:

a) provision of state and municipal services, including services provided by state and municipal institutions and other organizations in which the state assignment (order) or municipal assignment (order) is placed;

b) performance of state and municipal functions;

c) formation of basic state information resources determined by the Government of the Russian Federation;

d) interdepartmental electronic interaction;

e) other purposes stipulated by federal laws, acts of the President of the Russian Federation and acts of the Government of the Russian Federation.

2. Authorized access to the information referred to in paragraph 1 of these requirements shall be provided using an information technology interface infrastructure.

3. In the unified identification and authentication system, authorized access to the information specified in paragraph 1 of these requirements shall be carried out through the use of simple electronic signatures and enhanced qualified electronic signatures in the manner established by the Government of the Russian Federation, the following participants in information interaction:

a) officials of federal executive bodies, state extra-budgetary funds, executive bodies of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local self-government bodies, state and municipal institutions, multifunctional centers, as well as other organizations in cases provided for by federal laws, acts of the President of the Russian Federation and acts of the Government of the Russian Federation;

b) applicants - individuals and legal entities.

4. The unified identification and authentication system shall ensure the interaction of state information systems, municipal information systems and other information systems that are used by participants in information interaction for the purposes specified in paragraph 1 of these requirements.

5. The unified identification and authentication system shall ensure implementation of the following basic functions:

a) identification of participants of information interaction - comparison of the identifier entered by the participant of information interaction into any of the information systems specified in paragraph 4 of these requirements with the identifier of this participant contained in the corresponding basic state information resource determined by the Government of the Russian Federation;

b) authentication of information interaction participants - verification of the identity of the information interaction participant entered by him, as well as confirmation of the identity of the identifier;

c) authorization of participants in information interaction - confirmation that the participant in information interaction has rights to access the infrastructure that provides information and technological interaction of information systems used to provide state and municipal services in electronic form;

d) forming a list of identified and authenticated information systems specified in paragraph 4 of these requirements, participants in information interaction, bodies and organizations, as well as their identifiers in the registers of the unified identification and authentication system.

6. The unified identification and authentication system shall include the following registers:

a) register of individuals;

b) register of legal entities;

c) register of officials of bodies and organizations provided for by sub-clause "a" of clause 3 of these requirements;

d) register of bodies and organizations - federal executive bodies, state extra-budgetary funds, executive bodies of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local self-government bodies, state and municipal institutions, multifunctional centers, as well as other organizations in cases of using a unified identification and authentication system for purposes provided for by federal laws, acts of the President of the Russian Federation and acts of the Government of the Russian Federation;

e) register of information systems.

7. The types of identifiers used in the registers of the unified identification and authentication system are determined by the list of basic state information resources used in the provision of state or municipal services (execution of state or municipal functions), approved by order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated April 15, 2011 No. 654-r, and the regulation on the federal state information system "Unified system of identification and authentication in infrastructure, providing information and technological interaction of information systems used to provide state and municipal services in electronic form," approved by the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation.

8. The unified identification and authentication system shall ensure the protection of the information placed in it in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

See also

E-Government of Russia

Is the foundation strong? 42 inconvenient questions about the electronic government of Russia

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