The Federal Air Transport Agency ( Russian : Федеральное агентство воздушного транспорта - Federalnoye agentstvo vozdushnogo transporta , FAVT ), also known as Rosaviatsiya ( Russian : Росавиация ), or FATA , is a Russian government agency responsible for overseeing the civil aviation industry in Russia. Its headquarters are located in Moscow .
6-702: It is also called the Russian Federation Civil Aviation Administration (RFCAA). The Federal Air Transport Agency regularly works alongside the Interstate Aviation Committee in investigations of aviation accidents and incidents . Its U.S. equivalent is the Federal Aviation Administration . The Federal Air Transport Agency was established in 2004 by Russian President Vladimir Putin . On March 9, 2004, Putin issued
12-721: A decree, “On the System and Structure of Federal Executive Bodies,” in which the Agency was created. The Agency received many functions of the abolished Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation . A cyberattack on Rosaviatsia by hackers was unleashed in late March 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine . The effect was a massive disruption and the Russian agency said it had switched back to paper records following
18-744: The Agency. The main functions of the Federal Air Transport Agency are: Interstate Aviation Committee The Interstate Aviation Committee ( IAC ; Russian : Межгосударственный авиационный комитет, МАК ) is an executive body of the Civil Aviation and Airspace Use Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and was formed in 1991 according to the Civil Aviation and Airspace Use Multilateral Agreement , signed on 25 December 1991. In
24-600: The IAC cooperates with the Federal Air Transport Agency in investigations of aviation accidents . One publicly known and controversial IAC investigation was the 2010 plane crash that killed Polish president Lech Kaczyński . The committee is head-quartered in Yakimanka District , Central Administrative Okrug , Moscow , Russia . Since 1991, Tatiana Anodina has been the chairperson of
30-783: The Soviet Union, the State Supervisory Commission for Flight Safety (Gosavianadzor), under the Council of Ministers , was the predecessor of the IAC. The Gosavianadzor conducted aircraft accident and incident investigations. until the IAC was established in Minsk on 25 December 1991. The IAC has been accredited by ICAO as an intergovernmental organisation which may be invited to attend suitable ICAO meetings (officially, ICAO does not classify these as observers). The Aviation Accident Investigation Commission of
36-574: The attack. Due to budget limitations, Rosaviatsia did not have good backup of the hacked data. The head of the Federal Air Transport Agency is appointed and dismissed by the government of the Russian Federation. At its creation, the head was Nikolay Vladimirovich Shipil . Other heads followed, including from 2009, Alexander Neradko [ ru ] . who was replaced & criminally charged with initiation of war. Since September 2022, Dmitry Yadorov [ ru ] has headed
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