May 10 marks the 25th anniversary of aviation of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.

On this day 25 years ago, on May 10, 1995, the RF Government Resolution No. 457 was created by the Federal state unitary air enterprise of Ministry for emergency situations.

The main task is to provide aviation support for the activities of rescuers and firefighters of Tatarstan in the event of large-scale accidents, natural disasters and natural disasters, delivery of rescuers and medics to the emergency site, as well as transportation of victims by ambulance flights. Also, with the help of the EMERCOM of Russia aviation, aerial reconnaissance in the emergency zone and guidance of search and rescue teams to search objects, as well as landing of rescuers and evacuation of victims from disaster areas. Aviation of the EMERCOM of Russia, in addition, performs work directly related to the elimination of the consequences of emergencies. First of all, this is extinguishing fires from the air.

A bit of statistics: since 2007, the flight of the Tatarstan aviazven has been more than 2100 hours, including 1200 hours for extinguishing forest and man-made fires from the air. To extinguish forest fires repeatedly flew to the regions of the Volga region-Bashkortostan, Mari El, Nizhny Novgorod and Orenburg regions, Perm Krai, as well as to Gelendzhik and Novorossiysk. In August 2008, they participated in the delivery of humanitarian aid to the city Tskhinval in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian armed conflict. In addition, Tatarstan aviators of the Ministry of emergency situations conducted a sanitary evacuation of more than 210 victims (injured and seriously ill) from the scene to medical institutions.