Business Registers in Russia: ЕГРЮЛ (EGRUL) & GIR BO

Overview

Russia's business registration system runs through two federal registers, both maintained by the Federal Tax Service (Федеральная налоговая служба, ФНС). The Unified State Register of Legal Entities (Единый государственный реестр юридических лиц, ЕГРЮЛ / EGRUL) covers all legal entities. The Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs (Единый государственный реестр индивидуальных предпринимателей, ЕГРИП / EGRIP) covers sole traders. Both are publicly accessible at egrul.nalog.ru.

For KYB and AML work, Russia carries significant sanctions exposure. The EU, US, UK, and a number of other jurisdictions imposed broad measures on Russian entities and individuals from 2014, with a sharp expansion following February 2022. Due diligence on Russian counterparties requires current sanctions screening alongside any register lookup.

Russia has no public beneficial ownership register. Founder data for limited liability companies (ООО) is visible in EGRUL, but joint-stock companies do not disclose shareholders through the public register. Since 2022, some entities subject to international sanctions have had their data restricted within EGRUL itself.

Official Registers

ЕГРЮЛ / ЕГРИП: Unified State Registers

The EGRUL portal gives free public access to both registers. Search by company name (in Cyrillic or Latin script), OGRN, OGRNIP, or INN. No account is required for basic searches.

Each record shows the legal name, OGRN or OGRNIP, INN, KPP, legal form, registered address, status, registration date, authorised representative, and ОКВЭД activity codes. For ООО entities, the founding participants and their share percentages are also in the register. For joint-stock companies (АО, ПАО), the register shows only the name of the share registrar, not individual shareholders. Full shareholder registers for those forms are held privately by licensed registrars.

Activity code reform (effective September 1, 2025). Federal Law No. 529-FZ of December 28, 2024 introduced a distinction between two types of ОКВЭД codes in EGRUL and EGRIP. Declared codes (заявительные) are the activity codes the entity itself stated at registration, as before. Reporting codes (отчетные) are calculated by Rosstat from statistical data and published alongside the declared codes. Rosstat is due to calculate the first batch of reporting codes by April 10, 2026, based on 2025 activity data. Going forward, EGRUL records may show activity codes that differ from what the entity declared, which is relevant for KYB workflows relying on activity classification.

From 2022, some companies subject to international sanctions have had their founder and management data restricted in EGRUL, marked as ОгрДосСв (restricted access to information). In those cases, shareholder and directorship data may be absent or redacted in the public extract. The restriction framework has continued to develop: a November 2025 government bill would simplify automatic restoration of access when the grounds for restriction lapse, and as of December 2025 the Ministry of Industry and Trade (Минпромторг) was considering extending restrictions to EGRUL records for drone manufacturers. Both measures were still under review at the time of writing.

All data in EGRUL/EGRIP is in Russian (Cyrillic). Legal names, addresses, and activity descriptions are not transliterated by the register.

ГИР БО: State Information Resource for Accounting Reports

Annual financial statements are publicly available through the State Information Resource for Accounting Reports (Государственный информационный ресурс бухгалтерской отчетности, ГИР БО) at bo.nalog.ru. The resource covers statements filed from 2019 onwards.

Not all organisations publish here. Entities with state-secret classifications, certain religious organisations, and the Central Bank are exempt. Small companies may file in a simplified format.

Beneficial Ownership

Russia has no public beneficial ownership register. Under Russia's AML framework, companies are required to identify and document their beneficial owners internally, but that information is not published in any central register. For ООО entities, the EGRUL founders list gives a starting point for ownership tracing, though multi-layer structures and nominee arrangements are common and not separately flagged.

Registration and Publication Requirements

Companies (ООО, АО, ПАО)

The limited liability company (Общество с ограниченной ответственностью, ООО) is the most common commercial form. Registration with the Federal Tax Service gives the company its OGRN and INN. Founders, share percentages, and the authorised representative are all recorded in EGRUL.

The joint-stock company (Акционерное общество, АО) and the public joint-stock company (Публичное акционерное общество, ПАО) are used for larger or publicly traded entities. They register with the FTS and appear in EGRUL, but their shareholder registers are held separately by licensed share registrars, outside the public register.

The legacy forms ОАО (Open JSC) and ЗАО (Closed JSC) were abolished in 2014 and converted to АО or ООО. Entities incorporated before that date may still show their original form in historical filings.

Annual financial statements must be filed with the Federal Tax Service and are then published in GIR BO for most commercial entities.

Individual Entrepreneurs (ИП)

An individual entrepreneur (Индивидуальный предприниматель, ИП) registers with the Federal Tax Service and receives an OGRNIP and INN. The form does not create a separate legal entity, so the individual is personally liable. Russian law prohibits personal residential addresses from appearing in the public extract, so address data for ИП is limited.

State and Municipal Enterprises

Federal State Unitary Enterprises (ФГУП), State Unitary Enterprises (ГУП), and Municipal Unitary Enterprises (МУП) register in EGRUL like other legal entities. They are state- or municipality-owned and have no private shareholders.

Non-Commercial Organisations

Foundations (Фонды), Autonomous Non-Commercial Organizations (АНО), associations (Ассоциации / Союзы), and cooperatives (Кооперативы) all register in EGRUL. Non-commercial organisations holding "foreign agent" or "undesirable organisation" status carry additional designations in the register, which is relevant for due diligence workflows.

Summary

With Topograph

Topograph retrieves Russian company data from the official EGRUL/EGRIP extract issued by the Federal Tax Service. Data retrieval is asynchronous; typical processing is under two minutes, though large entities with many branches may take longer.

Available Data

Company Profile

• Legal name in Russian (Cyrillic) with OGRN or OGRNIP
• INN (10 digits for legal entities, 12 for individuals) and KPP where applicable
• Legal form (local label and standardized English category)
• Status and incorporation date
• Registered address and charter capital
• Activity codes (ОКВЭД declared codes; NACE Rev.2 and ISIC derived deterministically from declared codes)

Legal Representatives

• Authorised representative name, role, and INN; current holder only

Shareholders

• For ООО: founding participants with share percentage and nominal value in roubles
• Not available for АО, ПАО, or ИП

Establishments

• Branches and representative offices as recorded in EGRUL

Available Documents

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