It has been recently revealed that Sverdlovsk Region Railways and South Ural Railways (parts of Russian Railways Public Company) violated the federal property management regulations. The public prosecution authorities found out that Sverdlovsk Region Railways has no proper control over the use and management of land allotments, with 15% of renting agreements never registered by the state or filed in the cadastral database. The company’s Perm division, for instance, never registered 5 million square meters worth of land allotments and did not officially file twelve renting agreements.


Besides, Sverdlovsk Region Railways and South Ural Railways are reported to put up buildings on some state-owned land illegally. All the inspections of the companies have already resulted in twenty-five administrative suits, eleven claims laid with the court, and three warnings.