GOST (Russian: ГОСТ) refers to a set of technical standards maintained by the Euro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (EASC), a regional standards organization operating under the auspices of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

GOST standards were originally developed by the government of the Soviet Union as part of its national standardization strategy. The word GOST (Russian: ГОСТ) is an acronym for gosudarstvennyy standart (Russian:государственный стандарт), which means state standard.

After the disintegration of the USSR, the GOST standards acquired a new status of the regional standards. They are now administered by theEuro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (EASC), a standards organization chartered by the Commonwealth of Independent States

GOST 7.67: Country codes.

GOST 10859: A 1964 character set for computers, includes non-ASCII/non-Unicode characters required when programming in the ALGOL programming language.

GOST 7396: standard for power plugs and sockets used in Russia and throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States

Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology

The Committee for Standardization was created on 15 September 1925, date at which the development of standards for the country started.

The state standards (GOST) were compulsory documents for all enterprises and organizations regardless of their rank within various branches of industry until 1992.