The first association of designers in former Soviet history was founded in 1987. It consisted of brunches in Soviet republics and several local organisations in political&industrial centres like Moscow. Leningrad and some others. At that time Russian Federation did not have it’s own designer’s association. After disappearance of USSR and it’s Designer’s Association on initative of local design organisations, VNIITE and some big industrial design bureaus the Association of Designers of Russia was founded in 1991. After several years of uniting efforts more than 60 regional organisation of ADR were organised. The ADRUS assumed a status of all-Russian public, creative organisation. Now it units more than 3000 professional designers of different fields of design

Our mission is to promote design as innovative and intellectual creative activity which must become important instrument for Russian economy renovation and provision of national high quality living. We consider design as a strong instrument of social education and try to use it’s possibilities to improve ecology surrounding and social environment. We stay for protecting of intellectual property rights.

Creation of network of professional designer’s organisations during very difficult period of 90-th in a very big country. The Conception of development of design in Russian Federation which was worked out by the Ministry of economy and trade as a result of insistence activity of ADRUS jointly with other professional institutions