MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

ON THE APPROVAL OF STORAGE REGULATIONS,
ISSUANCE AND ACCOUNTING OF STATE MODEL DOCUMENTS
ABOUT BASIC GENERAL AND AVERAGE (FULL) GENERAL
EDUCATION

In order to establish a unified procedure for storing, issuing and recording documents on basic general and secondary (complete) general education, I order:
1. To approve the attached Regulations on the procedure for storing, issuing and recording state-recognized documents on basic general and secondary (complete) general education.
2. The educational authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation shall bring this Order to the attention of the subordinate educational institutions.
3. To consider invalid the Instruction on the procedure for the manufacture, storage, issuance and accounting of certificates of maturity, certificates and certificates of graduation from secondary, seven-year schools, schools for working youth and correspondence secondary schools, approved by the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR on June 4, 1951, and the Order of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR of October 31, 1958 N 374 "On amending the Instruction on the procedure for the manufacture, storage, issuance and accounting of certificates of maturity, certificates and certificates of graduation from secondary, seven-year schools, schools for working youth and correspondence secondary schools."
4. Control over the implementation of this Order shall be entrusted to Deputy Minister A.G. Asmolova.

Minister of education
Russian Federation
E. V. TKACHENKO

Application
to the Order
Ministry of Education
Russian Federation
dated 02.04.96 N 143

POSITION
ON THE PROCEDURE OF STORAGE, ISSUE AND ACCOUNTING OF DOCUMENTS
STATE MODEL ON BASIC GENERAL AND AVERAGE
(FULL) GENERAL EDUCATION

8. In case of loss of a document on education, general educational institution a duplicate is issued.
A duplicate of the certificate of basic general education is registered in the book for accounting and recording of certificates of basic general education, commendation sheets.
A duplicate of the certificate of secondary (complete) general education is registered in the book to record and record the issued certificates of secondary (complete) general education, gold and silver medals.
The issuance of duplicates, regardless of the time of graduation from a general education institution, is made on the basis of books for registering and recording educational documents or in accordance with archival data.
9. Duplicates are issued on standard forms, on which in the upper right corner is indicated "Duplicate instead of original N ...".
10. Issuance of a duplicate certificate of education is carried out in compliance with the following procedure:
a) the person who has lost his educational document submits a written application to this educational institution who issued him a document on education, outlining the circumstances of the loss of the document and attaching the existing documents confirming the loss;
b) a duplicate of the certificate of basic general education is issued within three days; a duplicate of the certificate of secondary (complete) general education - after a month;
c) when issuing a duplicate in the column "Receipt of receipt" it is written that the duplicate was issued instead of the lost original, indicating its number and date of issue;
d) the duplicate is signed by the head of the educational institution, the deputy head for educational - educational work and teachers (at least three).
11. Duplicates of educational documents are issued on the sample forms valid during the period of issue.
12. In the event of a reorganization of a general education institution, the issuance of duplicates of education documents shall be carried out on the recommendation of the municipal education management body of the educational institution - the legal successor of the reorganized institution, which stores the archive of the reorganized general education institution; the document must be signed by the head, his deputy for educational work, three members of the pedagogical council of the general education institution and sealed with the seal of the general education institution.
In the event of liquidation of a general education institution, the issuance of duplicates is carried out by the municipal education management body according to archival data and sealed with the seal of the relevant education management body.
13. A duplicate of the certificate of education is issued to the applicant without an attachment (insert) to it in the absence of a student's personal file, protocols of the examination committee and books for registering and recording educational documents after the fact of graduation from a general education institution is established.