The service is expected to be available by December 21 this year in the 21st region of Russia. For this, data on 14 thousand cemeteries will be uploaded to the National Spatial Data System — this is about one-fifth of all cemeteries in Russia.
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The project is estimated at approximately 295.5 million rubles.
The Russian Ministry of Digital Development says that this solution will not only simplify access to services but also make the burial business more transparent. This was also supported by the Russian Crematorium Association.
“When it is visible who, on what basis, and when allocated a plot or issued a permit, the space for unofficial sale of places, intermediaries’ imposition, and leakage of death information to so-called black agents decreases. This reduces the risk of corruption in allocating places and issuing permits,” the newspaper quotes the association’s president Aleksey Suloyev.
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However, problems have already arisen at the pilot launch stage (the service is being tested in six regions), he notes. Among other things, the mentioned fragmentation of digital data about a specific burial place and the additional burden on municipal officials due to lack of funds and equipment.
In the first half of 2026, Russia registered a record number of new burial companies in the past five years. Market participants associate this with increased demand and companies moving out of the “gray zone.”
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