Standards
Russia has its own standards known as GOSTs (Government Standards), most of which are inherited form the Soviet Union. There are at least four wide series of standards concerning technical documentation (see Table 1). These standards provide detailed requirements for technical documentation including possible types of documents, document structure and document layout. Engineers and technical writers tend to follow the GOST standards. In projects for the government the application of the GOST standards is common practice.
Table 1 - GOST Standards for Technical Documentation
Series of Standards | Scope | Content |
Unified system for design documentation | Industry | Product life cycle, types of design documents, layout of drawing sheets, types of user documents, layout of text documents, storing and updating procedures for technical documentation |
Unified system for technological documentation | Industry | Requirements for technical documentation describing manufacturing assembling procedures |
Unified system for program documentation | Software Engineering | Software lifecycle, types of software documents |
Set of standards for automated systems | Information System Engineering | System lifecycle, types of system documents. Local substitution for the ISO/IEC 15288 and ISO/IEC 15289 standards |
Federal Agency of Technical Regulation and Metrology