diff --git a/appliance/packagelist.in b/appliance/packagelist.in
index 309523443..7b6e9f23f 100644
--- a/appliance/packagelist.in
+++ b/appliance/packagelist.in
@@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ file
 findutils
 gawk
 gdisk
+gostsum
 grep
 gzip
 jfsutils
diff --git a/daemon/checksum.c b/daemon/checksum.c
index f7337fb5b..e3a22f973 100644
--- a/daemon/checksum.c
+++ b/daemon/checksum.c
@@ -46,8 +46,12 @@ program_of_csum (const char *csumtype)
     return "sha384sum";
   else if (STRCASEEQ (csumtype, "sha512"))
     return "sha512sum";
+  else if (STRCASEEQ (csumtype, "gost"))
+    return "gostsum";
+  else if (STRCASEEQ (csumtype, "gost12"))
+    return "gost12sum";
   else {
-    reply_with_error ("unknown checksum type, expecting crc|md5|sha1|sha224|sha256|sha384|sha512");
+    reply_with_error ("unknown checksum type, expecting crc|md5|sha1|sha224|sha256|sha384|sha512|gost|gost12");
     return NULL;
   }
 }
diff --git a/generator/actions_core.ml b/generator/actions_core.ml
index addbe4ec1..8fb5a665a 100644
--- a/generator/actions_core.ml
+++ b/generator/actions_core.ml
@@ -2652,6 +2652,13 @@ parameter which must have one of the following values:
 Compute the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) specified by POSIX
 for the C<cksum> command.
 
+=item C<gost>
+
+=item C<gost12>
+
+Compute the checksum using GOST R34.11-94 or
+GOST R34.11-2012 message digest.
+
 =item C<md5>
 
 Compute the MD5 hash (using the L<md5sum(1)> program).