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GOST Instrumentation Symbols – A Simple Guide

GOST-based conventions are commonly encountered in Russian and some CIS engineering documentation.

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A pneumatic fail-closed control valve FV-101 with its properties feeding into the GOST profile in InduDraftFV-101Body: globeActuator: pneumaticFailure: fail closedGOST PROFILEGOST 21.208-2013 reference
The valve's properties are stored once. The GOST profile decides how it is drawn; GOST-specific mappings are added after verification.

GOST 21.208

GOST 21.208-2013 defines conventional symbols for instrumentation and automation equipment used in industrial-process automation documentation.

It entered into force in 2014 and replaced GOST 21.404-85.

Why support GOST separately?

Moving a drawing to another standard should not mean rebuilding the engineering model. A valve is still a valve, and a transmitter is still a transmitter.

InduDraft keeps a component's engineering meaning separate from how a given standard draws it, so new conventions can be added without creating unrelated objects. The GOST profile is available in the editor; GOST-specific symbol verification is in progress. See InduDraft's GOST P&ID editor.

Open the GOST profile in InduDraft

Open a new P&ID with the GOST profile selected.

Open GOST profile

The GOST profile uses shared InduDraft engineering symbols until GOST-specific mappings are verified.

Official references

Illustrations are drawn with InduDraft's own symbols. No content is copied from the standards.