Rostest
Rostest is the largest organization of practical metrology and certification on the territory of the Russian Federation. The main goal of Rostest is governmental standards control aimed at ensuring and maintaining uniformity of measurements in industry, health care, communication systems, trading, military defense, and resource counting as well as environmental protection and other economic activities.
Activities
The Rostest specialists perform checking, calibrating, testing different means of measuring for approving the type, validation of the testing equipment as well as the methods of performing measurements.
Certification in Russia

The new Rostest mark of certification was introduced in Russia in 1992 and went into effect on 1 July 1993.[1]
In order to import and sell goods in Russia it is necessary to draw up permissive documents, including Correspondence Certificates, Correspondence Declaration, and Letters of Refusal.
The main objective of Rostest is to draw up permissive certification documents. The institutions that cooperate with Rostest in Russia include: Russian Techno Regulation, Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES), Russian Consumer Rights' Supervision, RRIS (Russian Research Institute of Certification).
Mission of Rostest
On the base of Rostest in Moscow they founded one of the first organs for certification of products and services and the quality systems within the system of obligatory certification in the early 1990s.
Abilities
Rostest owns a modern testing base and the most recent equipment.
References
- "Знак соответствия при обязательной сертификации: ГОСТ Р 50460-92" [Conformity mark for mandatory certification: GOST R 50460-92] (in Russian). SertTest.ru. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
Examples
- GOST 7.67: Country codes
- GOST 5284-84: Tushonka (canned stewed beef)
- GOST 7396: Standard for power plugs and sockets used in Russia and throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States
- GOST 10859: A 1964 character set for computers, includes non-ASCII/non-Unicode characters required when programming in the ALGOL programming language
- GOST 16876-71: A standard for Cyrillic-to-Latin transliteration[1]
- GOST 27974-88: Programming language ALGOL 68[2]
- GOST 27975-88: Programming language ALGOL 68 extended[3]
- GOST 28147-89 block cipher – commonly referred to as just GOST in cryptography
External links
- Replaced by GOST 7.79-2000 in 2002
- "ГОСТ 27974-88 Язык программирования АЛГОЛ 68" [GOST 27974-88 Programming language ALGOL 68] (PDF) (in Russian). GOST. 1988. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- "ГОСТ 27975-88 Язык программирования АЛГОЛ 68 расширенный" [GOST 27975-88 Programming language ALGOL 68 extended] (PDF) (in Russian). GOST. 1988. Retrieved 2018-12-28.