In the period from 8 to 14 of October 2017 in Russian Federation in Vladivostok took place the 81st General Assembly of the International electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the work conducted more than 100 committees with the participation of experts from 180 countries.

At the 57th meeting of TC 9 «Electrical equipment and systems for railways» were experts from National Research University «Moscow Power Engineering Institute» Director of Volzhsky branch Mahsud Sultanov and Deputy Director Vasily Kuryanov. The meetings were held in the campus of Far Eastern Federal University. During the TC-9 meeting Vasily Kuryanov reported the results of Ad-Hoc-Group -14 work by development a new standard «Copper and copper alloy messenger wires for overhead contact line». TC 9 resolved to continuing the work on development a new standard «Copper and copper alloy messenger wires for overhead contact line» with call for experts for a new project team with Vasily Kuryanov as the future project leader. Until the end of 2017, new project team will be finally complete, and in 2018 will be held several working meetings to reconcile a version of the standard for «CD» edition.

The creation of this standard was initiated by Energoservice LLC at the 79th Assembly of the IEC, where the working group AHG 14 was established, which included 12 experts from 6 countries of the world, experts from Russia, Japan, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic and China.

Remind that in 2015, after the report at the 55th TC-9 meeting during the 79th General Assembly of the IEC in Minsk, Belarus, the resolution of the TC-9 set the AHG 14 which is consist of 12 experts from 6 countries: Russia, Japan, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic and China. The task of the AHG 14 was to investigate the existing standards to study international experience and specifics of using messenger wires for overhead contact line, to propose a structure for new standard and the draft standard with the consensus of experts participants. After two years work the consensus was reached and new project team next few years will work by development the international standard «Copper and copper alloy messenger wires for overhead contact line». The standard will include whole world experience of copper and copper alloy messenger wires for overhead contact line and new Russian production the compacted wires for Railways.