Russian Union of Engineers
# Russian Union of Engineers

The Russian Union of Engineers (RUE) (Russian: Российский союз инженеров (РСИ)) claims to be an all-Russian nongovernmental organization of engineers, design-engineers, builders, inventors, rationalizers, researchers, scientists, scientific and technical employees, and managers of industrial production. It has published several studies on economics, energy and housing related subjects and a paper on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

## Social projects

On January 21, 2012, at the Polytechnical Museum of Moscow, the Russian Union of Engineers presented the general rating of city appeal of Russian cities for 2011.

On May 20, 2013, the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency of Construction and Housing of the Russian Federation, Russian Union of Engineers and the experts of Lomonosov Moscow State University developed a rating and methodology of evaluation of urban environment and analyzed the 50 largest Russian cities. For this work, the Union designed the methods of urban environment quality assessment and a city appeal threshold.

The rating has been developed:

* by the order the President of the Russian Federation defined in paragraph 1 of Assignments No. Pr-534 of the President of the Russian Federation as of February 29, 2012, to executive bodies as a result of the meeting “On measures of implementation of the housing policy” as of February 14, 2012
* by the order of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation defined in paragraph 4 of the List of assignments № VP-P9-1581 “On development of a methodology of assessment of urban environment quality and assessment of the major cities of Russia” of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation as March 20, 2012.
