Article 54. The Name, Location and Address of a Legal Person

1. A legal person has its name that contains reference to an organisational legal form. The name of a non-profit organisation, and in the cases envisaged by a law, the name of a commercial organisation shall comprise reference to the nature of the legal person's activity.

It is admissible that the name of a legal person includes the official name "the Russian Federation" or "Russia" and also the words derivatives from that name in the cases envisaged by a law, decrees of the President of the Russian Federation or acts of the Government of the Russian Federation or under a permit issued in the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

The full or abbreviated names of federal executive governmental bodies shall not be used in the names of legal persons, except for the cases envisaged by a law, decrees of the President of the Russian Federation or acts of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Normative legal acts of subjects of the Russian Federation may establish a procedure for using the official names of the subjects of the Russian Federation in the names of legal persons.

2. The location of a legal person is defined by the place of its state registration on the territory of the Russian Federation by referring to the name of an inhabited locality (municipal formation). The state registration of a legal person shall be effectuated at the location of its permanent executive body, or if there is no permanent executive body, of the other body or person empowered to act in the name of the legal person by virtue of a law, another legal act or the constitutive document.

3. The address of the legal person shall be stated in the comprehensive state register of legal entities.

A legal person shall run the risk of the consequences of non-receiving of legally-significant messages (Article 165.1) delivered to the address written in the comprehensive state register of legal entities, and also the risk of absence of its body or representative at said address. The messages delivered to the address stated in the comprehensive state register of legal entities shall be deemed received by the legal person, even if it is not located at said address.

If a foreign legal person has a representative on the territory of the Russian Federation the messages delivered to the address of such representative shall be deemed received by the foreign legal person.

4. A legal person being a commercial organisation shall have a company name.

The provisions applicable to the company name are established by the present Code and other laws. Rights to the company name are defined in accordance with the rules of Section VII of the present Code.

5. A description, company name and location of a legal person shall be stated in its constitutive document and in the comprehensive state register of legal entities.