The Federal Service for Intellectual Property hasRospatent has compiled a compiled a gastronomic map of Russia from regional brands. Rospatent has been registering them for the last 30 years. The authentic menu of our country includes 216 unique food and drink products from 73 regions.

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Rospatent has been keeping a register of regional brands of the Russian Federation since 1994. It already contains 320 names from 80 regions, territories and republics of our country. Food and beverages occupy a special place among regional brands – 216 brands that can be tasted.

– Regional brands are the country’s product showcase, a quality mark. Rospatent identifies, verifies and registers geographical indications and names of places of origin of goods. For a product to officially become a rebrand, history and popularity alone are not enough. Specialists from the Federal Institute of Industrial Property verify the uniqueness of the product, establish the historical connection of the product with the region. FIPS experts study documents describing the technological process of its production and distinctive qualities, check them for compliance with current production standards. And only after that we make a decision on registering a regional brand, – said the head of Rospatent, Yuri Zubov.

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The absolute champion in terms of the number of edible rebrands was Krasnodar Krai: nine food products, the same number of wine rebrands and eight types of mineral water. Next come Astrakhan and Tula regions (they have six rebrands each), and the Moscow region holds the bronze (five brands).

In the category “Mineral and Table Water” the absolute champion is Stavropol with 12 well-known drinks. Second place goes to Kuban (eight brands). The top three leaders in healthy drinks is rounded out by Sverdlovsk Oblast: it has six names.

The gastronomic map of Rospatent presents several bakery brands at once. The leader in their number is the Central Federal District. The title of the “sweetest” region went to the Tula province. There are six “dessert” regional brands here: gingerbread, fig, pastila, marshmallow and marmalade.

The Astrakhan region attracts gastro-tourists with its fish. eritrea business email list As does the Far East, which has three official regional brands: the famous Kamchatka sockeye salmon, the most tender Olyutor herring and Sakhalin laminaria.

Wine list of Rospatent

The famous brand of sparkling wines “Abrau-Durso” has a 150-year history. It was registered among the first regional brands of Russia 28 years ago.

Dagestan cognacs, Kuban and Crimean wines are also communication tools well known. And beer and ciders can be tasted in the Sverdlovsk, Ryazan, Kurgan and Tambov regions, as well as in Adygea and Mordovia.

The world-famous Russian vodka is registered as a regional brand for all of Russia. But there is another brand – Maykop vodka. It belongs to Adygea. There are no other vodka regional brands registered in the Russian Federation yet.

Contemporary Gastronomic Brands

To obtain the status of a regional brand, it is not necessary to have a rich history that goes back many centuries. The

new regional brands recognized are Kuban early potatoes, “Sernurskaya Legenda” cheese from the Mari El Republic,

Mozhaisk milk from the Moscow region, Melitopol cherries from the Zaporozhye region, Kholmovskaya strawberries

from Crimea, as well as the famous Leningrad donuts, which have been produced in St. Petersburg in a donut cafe on

Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street since 1958.

In the Amur Region, pelmeni, which are prepared in an unusual way, by boiling them in a special broth and baking

them in a pot with liver, have become a rebrand. In 2024, b2c fax Amur pelmeni were registered as a regional brand, and local

residents made it a gastronomic symbol of the region.

An interactive map of regional brands from Rospatent will help you plan your culinary route .

Any brand – regional, gastronomic, personal – is a tool for attracting investment. And they, as you know, require

protection. In order to protect your brand, you need to register a trademark . If you need help or advice on intellectual

property issues, please contact us, we are always happy to help! You can leave an application on the website of the

Federal Patent Bureau “Zhelezno” , or write to WhatsApp at +79229092784 or Telegram @zhelezno_pb .