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==History==
[[image:Rostelekom.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The company's headquarters in Moscow]]
Prior to 1990, responsibility for the provision of telecommunications services lie at the Ministry of Communications of the USSR. On June 26, 1990 the Ministry of Communications of the USSR established a state-owned joint-stock company Sovtelekom, which was given the rights to operate the telecommunications network of the USSR.
On December 30, 1992 by order of the State Property Committee of Russia a state-owned enterprise Rostelecom, which consisted of 20 state long-distance and international calls, as well as communication equipment Intertelekom was organized.
Rostelecom was founded on September 23, 1993, when the state registration approved the company. In 1995-1996 the construction of the Central Complex, the unified international and long distance digital communication networks in the country's single telecommunications environment. Rostelecom built the world's longest digital radio link "Moscow - Khabarovsk". From 1998 to 2000, the Group entered into the program to ensure a modern digital communication remote and inaccessible regions of Russia. Were commissioned ground station satellite networks of OJSC "Rostelecom" using frequency satellite resources of the new generation LMI-1 of the International Organization of Space Communications "[[Intersputnik]]".
[[image:Rostelecom logo en.gif|right|thumb|200px|The logo used until 2011]]
On October 18, 2006 "Rostelecom" received a certificate of quality of IP-MPLS network and became the ISP backbone. In December 2006, Rostelecom and the telecommunications company [[KDDI]] in Japan under the "Transit Europe - Asia" signed an agreement to build a line of [[Nakhodka]] - [[Naoetsu]] with total bandwidth of 640 Gbit/s instead of the previous 560 Mbit/s.<ref>[http://telecom.cnews.ru/news/top/index.shtml?2006/12/13/227947 Россия-Япония: скорость связи вырастет в 1000 раз // CNews.ru, 13.12.2006]</ref>
On March 2012 [[Russian President]] [[Dmitry Medvedev]] ordered a merger between Svyazinvest and Rostelecom within a year. The order, published at pravo.gov.ru state legal website, also stipulated that the [[Russian government]] and the country's national development bank [[Vnesheconombank]] (VEB) will maintain a holding of over 50 percent to keep control of the new company, which will work under the Rostelecom brand name.<ref>[http://en.rian.ru/business/20120326/172401742.html "Medvedev Orders Svyazinvest, Rostelecom Merger", Ria Novosti]</ref>
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