Total work experience
Total work experience refers to the cumulative duration of labor and other socially useful activities prior to January 1, 2002, which includes: periods of work as a worker or employee (including employment outside the territory of the Russian Federation), member of a collective farm or another cooperative organization; periods of other work where the employee, not being a worker or employee, was subject to mandatory pension insurance; periods of work (service) in military security, special communications organs or in a mining rescue unit regardless of its nature; periods of individual labor activity, including in agriculture; periods of creative activities by members of creative unions - writers, artists, composers, cinematographers, theatrical professionals, as well as authors and artists who are not members of the relevant creative unions1.
Federal Law of December 17, 2001 No. 173-FZ "On Labor Pensions in the Russian Federation", as amended on June 4, 2014, Article 30, paragraph 3 // Official Gazette of the Russian Federation. 2001. No. 52. Item 4920. ↩