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Vitaly V. Klyuev - head of the Department of State Policy in the field of maritime and inland water transport of the Ministry of Transport of Russia, Moscow, Russia

Sergey D. Ayzinov - head of the Institute of additional professional education ― head of the Maritime Training Center of the Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping, St. Petersburg, Russia

Yuriy S. Melenas - permanent representative of the Russian Federation in the International Maritime Organization, London, UK

Aleksandr S. Pinsky - chairman of Supervisory Board of the MARINET Industry Association, Moscow, Russia

Viktor G. Senchenko - scientific supervisor of the research laboratory “Navigation automation” of the Admiral Ushakov State Maritime University, Novorossiysk, Russia

Nataliya N. Kharchenko - deputy head of the Center for Promotion of Autonomous Shipping Technologies MARINET of the Russian University of Transport (RUT (MIIT)), Moscow, Russia

Albert V. Chernyshov - deputy head of the expertise and engineering department of the Main directorate of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, St. Petersburg, Russia

Abstract. The current paper has presented the analysis of the composition and content of documents sent by the Russian Federation to the International Maritime Organization as part of the development of international legal instruments regulating the operation of maritime autonomous surface vessels. There have been provided the full texts of all documents of the Russian Federation and given a brief thematic analysis of Russian proposals and information materials.