Russian Post

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Emblem of the Russian Postal Service

Head Office of the Russian Post in Moscow

Russian Post (Russian: По́чта Росси́и), is the state-owned postal service of Russia. The company is responsible for the delivery of mail in Russia, as well as the issuing of stamps. Russian Post employs about 370 000 people and has over 40 000 postal offices.

Russian Post is a founding member of the Universal Postal Union created in 1874. In 1802 Chief Postal Service was made part of the Internal Affairs Ministry and in 1917 under the Provisional Government it became part of Ministry of Post and Telegraph. During the Great Patriotic War Soviet postal service part of People's Commissariat of communications was delivering up to 70 million mails per month to the Soviet army front from the rear under extremely difficult and often very dangerous conditions. In 1993 Russian Post became a part of Ministry of Communications.

As of January of 2006 CEO of Russian Post is Igor Syrtsov.