Highly porous materials in the Sr 0.96 Y 0.04 Ti 1-x Cr x O 3 system (where x = 0, 2, 4, 8 mol.%) were obtained by wet synthesis method. The structural and electrical properties of these materials were determined together with the ability to participate in oxidation/ reduction reactions, since yttrium is responsible for high electrical conductivity in reducing atmosphere and chromium is a factor affecting the catalytic properties. For the material with the highest assumed amount of chromium, the small content of an additional phase (Cr 2 O 3) was observed. SrTiO 3 lattice parameters together with the results of temperature-programmed reduction (TPR) and temperature-programmed oxidation (TPOx) tests and Seebeck coefficient measurements allowed to determine the oxidation states of chromium in the received materials. It was shown that introduction of Y into strontium sublattice stabilises the strontium titanate structure and affects the oxidation state of chromium incorporated into the titanium sublattice. The defect structure in Sr 0.96 Y 0.04 Ti 1-x Cr x O 3 system is a complex problem, since yttrium is a donor type dopant and chromium due to the possible +3 and +6 oxidation states can be considered both acceptor and donor type one. Thus, a change in the conduction mechanism with the chromium content was observed in both oxidising and reducing atmosphere.