Gosstandart (GOST)

Gosstandart (GOST) published and maintained Gosudarstvennyy Standart (State Standards) under the USSR. Now GOST standards continue to be used by the twelve member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).GOST standards address industries such as petroleum, chemical, mining and mineral resources, power and electrical equipment and oil and gas products.CIS adopted these standards, which are administered by the Euro-Asian Council of Standardization, Metrology, and Certification (EASC).

EASC continues the international standards work started under the USSR and collaborates with several international standards bodies including ISO, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and the World Trade Organization (WTO).

The GOST collection of standards covers general and technical specifications as well as safety requirements. The GOST standards are useful to businesses performing work in Russia or any of the other CIS countries, which include:

• Russia
• Belarus
• Ukraine
• Moldova
• Kazakhstan
• Azerbaijan
• Armenia
• Kyrgyzstan
• Uzbekistan
• Tajikistan
• Georgia
• Turkmenistan

These standards are also useful to suppliers, vendors, and consultants to companies doing business in Commonwealth countries.

If you have multiple individuals and departments regularly accessing standards, then an online standards solution from IHS may be more cost effective for you.

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The IHS online solution provides company-wide access to the standards you need from a collection of over 1.3 million standards documents. Whether you require documents from a single standards developing organization (SDO), multiple SDOs, segments and packages assembled by IHS content experts, or any combination in between, you can build your own standards library. The online standards management platform - IHS Standards Expert™ - furnishes you with the most comprehensive worldwide collection of industry specifications and standards.  Information is updated daily with easy, intuitive searching, navigation, and monitoring from any desktop.

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If you need a collection of individual standards/documents, then the IHS custom standards collection works best for you. This option allows the greatest flexibility allowing you to pick and choose specific documents, whether they come from one or more SDOs. IHS does not require that you purchase a minimum number of documents to use this option. Your custom collection allows for multiple users at multiple locations to access the documents you have chosen.

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All standards are also available for purchase as individual documents through the IHS Standards Store in PDF or hard copy formats. 

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