How is the national electoral register created?

Federal Law on Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right of Citizens of Russian Federation to Participate in a Referendum, May 22, 2002 (last amended on July 25, 2011, No 263-FZ), accessed on 10 September 2018

Article 16. Registration of Voters, Referendum Participants

2. Registration/ recording of voters and referendum participants residing in the territory of the appropriate municipality shall be carried out by the Head of municipal administration of the municipal district, city district, intra-city territory of a federal-significance city and in cases envisaged in the law of the subject of the Russian Federation and the federal-significance city, by the Head of the territory executive body of the federal significance city. The Reason for registration/accounting of voters and referendum participants on the territory of the municipality shall be actual location of the place of residence (with respect to forced migrants – actual temporary stay) of voters and referendum participants on the appropriate territory. This fact is established based on information provided by the bodies in charge of state registration of the Russian citizens at the place of stay and at the place of residence in the Russian Federation. […]

9. The information indicated in Sections 5-8 of this Article shall, at least once a month, be communicated by the head of the local administration of the municipal district, the city district, the intra-city territory of the federal significance city, and in cases envisaged in law of the subject of the Russian Federation – federal-significance city, by the head of the territorial office of executive power of the federal-significance city, to election commission of the subject of the Russian Federation for establishment and maintenance of the register of voters and referendum participants.

Federal Law On Elections of Deputies to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, February 14, 2014 (last amended on 05.04.2016 No 92-FZ), accessed on 10 September 2018

Article 17. Procedure of Entering and Excluding Citizens in/from the Voter Lists

2. The basis for the inclusion of a citizen in the voter list at a polling station is the fact of his residence in the territory of the polling station, established by bodies of registration of citizens of the Russian Federation at the place of a temporary stay and place of residence within the Russian Federation in accordance with federal law governing the exercise of the rights of citizens of the Russian Federation to the freedom of movement, choice of place of residence within the Russian Federation.