In Russia, the website requirements for an educational organisation are set by Article 29 of the education law No. 273-FZ: which information and documents must be published, and that they must be updated within ten working days. Under the same article, Rosobrnadzor, the federal education regulator, approves the site structure: an “Information about the educational organisation” section with fixed sub-sections, reachable from the home page. The separate low-vision version was dropped from the requirements on 25 October 2025, but we kept it on the LIMA training centre site, and below we explain why.
Who this applies to and what law No. 273-FZ says
Everything here concerns organisations holding an education licence: continuing professional education centres, driving schools, professional development and retraining courses, occupational safety centres. If a centre issues certificates and diplomas under a licence, its website counts as the official website of an educational organisation, and inspectors check it against their own list.
The list starts with Article 29 of law No. 273-FZ “On Education in the Russian Federation”, titled “Information openness of an educational organisation”. Part 2 lists what an organisation must make openly available:
- About the organisation - founding date, founder, location, opening hours, phones and email, structure and management bodies, the head and deputies.
- About teaching - programmes, languages of education, the teaching staff with their education, qualifications and work experience, facilities, the licence and whether the programmes are accredited.
- Copies of documents - the charter, local regulations and internal rules, the self-assessment report, regulator orders and reports on their fulfilment.
- Paid services - the procedure for providing them, a sample contract and the document approving the price of each programme.
Part 3 of the same article says all of this goes on the official website and is updated within ten working days of a document being created, received or changed. It also says who writes the details: the Government sets the publishing procedure, and Rosobrnadzor sets the site structure and format. The article is amended from time to time: the latest changes came with law No. 34-FZ of 20 February 2026 and apply from 1 September 2026.
The “Information about the educational organisation” section
The structure required by Part 3 of Article 29 is approved by Rosobrnadzor order No. 1493, whose preamble refers directly to that part of the law. The section must be reachable from the home page and the main menu, without registration, and every page of it needs shared navigation across the section. Inside are sub-sections with fixed names. For a training centre the most important ones are usually:
- “Basic information” - full name, founding date, founder, location, opening hours, phones, email, licence.
- “Documents” - charter, internal rules, local regulations, the self-assessment report, regulator orders if there were any.
- “Education” - programmes, form of study, curricula.
- “Management” and “Teaching staff” - who teaches, each teacher’s education, professional development over the last 3 years, work experience.
- “Paid educational services” - the procedure, a sample contract, the document approving the price of each programme.
- “Facilities and equipment. Accessible environment” - equipped classrooms, teaching equipment, conditions for people with disabilities.
The remaining sub-sections (grants, catering, international cooperation, vacancies for students) must be there too: the order lists them all in one list, without splitting them into important and secondary.
On the LIMA site the section has 12 parts, and the markup follows what inspectors expect. A visitor in doubt opens it and sees the licence, the charter, company details, teaching staff and classroom equipment.
What the law requires and how LIMA does it
| Requirement | Where it is written | How LIMA does it |
|---|---|---|
| Information section with sub-sections, linked from the home page | Order No. 1493, based on Art. 29(3) of 273-FZ | 12 parts, linked from the home page and the menu |
| Updates within ten working days | Art. 29(3) of 273-FZ | The centre changes documents and data in its admin panel |
| Price of each programme | Art. 29(2)(4) of 273-FZ | Each programme has its own page with hours and price |
| Teaching staff details | Art. 29(2)(1)(z) of 273-FZ | Teachers with education and experience are managed in the panel |
Is a low-vision version still required?
Until autumn 2025, clause 21 of order No. 1493 required every such site to have a low-vision version. Rosobrnadzor order No. 1353 repealed that clause, effective 25 October 2025. The rest of that order applies from 1 March 2026: accreditation details moved to the “Education” sub-section, and the format for publishing teaching staff was clarified.
So formally the switch is no longer needed. We still would not remove it. The law still requires information about facilities, and the order literally calls that sub-section “Accessible environment”. It is odd to write about accessibility on a site a person with poor eyesight cannot use. It is built once and then simply works.
On the LIMA site the switch is the first element on the page and works even with scripts turned off: three font sizes, five colour schemes, letter spacing, font choice, images off and a button back to the normal version. A version that depends on a script disappears when the script fails to load, so we built it without that dependency.
Common mistakes an inspection reveals
A website builder breaks no rules by itself. Problems start when a site is made as a business card and the information section is bolted on later. You can walk through the law and the order yourself and check:
- The section is hidden. The link sits only in the footer or deep inside, while the order requires access from the home page and the main menu.
- Sub-sections are renamed. “About us” instead of “Basic information”, “Team” instead of “Teaching staff”. The order sets the names exactly, and the section is checked against them.
- Files without descriptions. A page links to “Document1.pdf” and nobody knows what is inside. The order requires each file link to say what the file is for.
- Data does not match. One phone in the header, another in “Basic information”, a third set of company details in the contract, because they were edited in different places at different times.
- Information is out of date. The new price is already in the contract but the site shows the old one. The law allows ten working days for updates, which is hard to meet if every edit means writing to a contractor.
- The consent box is pre-ticked. The sign-up form already has consent to data processing ticked, while the law requires the person to tick it. On the LIMA site it is not pre-ticked.
That is how things were at LIMA before us: the business-card site did not meet the requirements, there was no required section and no proper low-vision version, and changing a price or a licence scan meant writing to a contractor.
How a centre can update programmes and documents itself
Most of the mistakes above appear not at launch but six months later, when nobody updates the site. That is why the admin panel, where the centre manages content without a developer, matters most in both our projects.
On the LIMA site the centre adds and removes programmes, changes hours and prices, attaches files, manages teachers and staff records, uploads the charter and the licence, edits pages and reviews. Phone, address, company details and licence data are changed in one place and appear everywhere at once, so “one phone in the header, another in the information section” cannot happen. A sign-up request is saved in the panel and emailed at the same time; data is stored on a server in Russia.
Each programme has its own page: hours, price, what is taught, the certificate issued, the curriculum as a file. This also takes the same questions off the administrator, who used to answer them many times a day.
5in5 solves the same task for many organisations at once. The information section is built once and shared, and a new organisation is added with a directory entry: company details, menu, contacts, programmes. The header and footer are shared and filled from the directory, so company details never differ between pages. Several training centres already run their sites on the platform, from a single professional development programme to a full set of occupational safety courses. The second part, student records with export to the federal register of education documents (FIS FRDO), is in development.
Frequently asked questions
What information must a Russian training centre website have?
The list is set by Part 2 of Article 29 of law No. 273-FZ: information about the organisation, programmes, management and teachers, facilities, the licence, copies of the charter and local regulations, the self-assessment report and documents on paid services. On the site they are grouped into the “Information about the educational organisation” section with the sub-sections from Rosobrnadzor order No. 1493.
Is a low-vision version of the site still required?
The requirement was removed from order No. 1493 by order No. 1353, effective 25 October 2025. Information about the accessible environment must still be published, so keeping a low-vision version is sensible.
How quickly must information on the site be updated?
Under Part 3 of Article 29 of law No. 273-FZ, within ten working days of a document being created, received or changed. The deadline is easiest to meet when the centre edits documents and prices in the site’s admin panel itself.
Can a training centre website be made on a website builder?
Yes, if the builder lets you set up the information section with the exact sub-section names, access from the home page and descriptions for files. Trouble usually starts later, when the same data has to be edited in several places.
Who this fits
Any centre with an education licence: beauty and hairdressing courses, driving schools, professional development, retraining and occupational safety centres. The LIMA framework moves to another centre by replacing content and colours, so the second site costs less than the first, and with several organisations a platform like 5in5 is more convenient. See our other work in directions. Describe your centre in the form below: which programmes, whether you have a site now and what you do not like about it.
