Russians will be able to buy cemetery plots through Gosuslugi government services portal
Russia’s Gosuslugi government services portal will launch a tool for searching for and purchasing cemetery plots, backed by 295.5 million rubles in funding, the Russian business daily Kommersant reported after reviewing documents from the Digital Development Ministry.
Gosuslugi, Russia's government services portal, will introduce a system allowing citizens to search for and purchase cemetery plots. This new tool has received 295.5 million rubles in funding, according to a report from the business daily Kommersant. The service is scheduled to be available in 21 regions by December 1, 2026, once data from 14,000 cemeteries has been uploaded to the National System of Spatial Data (NSPD). Currently, the project is being tested in six regions.
Alexey Suloyev, president of the Association of Crematoriums of Russia, expressed support for the system, noting it could contribute to reducing corruption in the allocation of burial plots. However, he highlighted several challenges encountered during the pilot phase, including issues with data uploads from state registries, fragmented digital records of burial sites, and occasional failures of the interactive map to allow users to select a plot.
The rise in the number of companies providing funeral services in Russia, up by 22.5% in the past year, has been attributed to the "forced removal of business from the gray zone." This move by Gosuslugi aims to bring more transparency to the funeral industry.
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