Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM)
Identity
EMERCOM (MChS Russia) is the Russian federal ministry responsible for civil defense, protection of the population and territories from emergencies, fire safety, and safety on water bodies. The Kremlin Security Council roster dated 16 February 2026 lists Alexander V. Kurenkov as minister, and MChS reporting through 2025 continues to identify him as head of the ministry; an official MChS conference program also described him as a lieutenant general. ([kremlin.ru](https://www.kremlin.ru/structure/security-council/members?utm_source=openai))
Headquarters
The ministry’s central apparatus is in Moscow at Teatralny proyezd 3, postal code 109012. Official central-apparatus contact material also points to reception functions at building 3/2 on the same compound, and multiple MChS documents use Teatralny proyezd 3 as the ministry’s place of location. ([mchs.gov.ru](https://mchs.gov.ru/contacts/spisok-telefonov-priemnyh-strukturnyh-podrazdeleniy-ca?utm_source=openai))
Rescue-center network
Official MChS reporting states that the rescue military formations include 10 rescue centers plus the Ruza control-points support center. The direct placemarks are consistent with that network: Noginsky Rescue Center in Noginsk under Maj. Gen. Evgeniy Gavrilyuk; Nevskiy Rescue Center in Kolpino, Saint Petersburg; Don Rescue Center at Kovalyevka, Rostov Oblast; and Siberian Rescue Center at Kochenevo, Novosibirsk Oblast. Noginsky public materials still preserve the historical 179th designation, indicating the placemark naming is legacy but consistent with the current institution. ([mchs.gov.ru](https://mchs.gov.ru/uploads/document/2023-05-19/57f5b8b4815dd3e1b2592f5565a2c30f.pdf?utm_source=openai))
Designation check
Open-source confirmation of the numeric designations is uneven. The 346th designation is explicitly tied to today’s Nevskiy center, and Don’s official page explicitly preserves former designation 495 and unit 11350; official MChS material also links military unit 01630 to the 346th center. For the Siberian site, the official contact page confirms Kochenevo and the center name, while the official MChS memory portal links it to military unit 52987; the placemark’s “653rd” ordinal is therefore plausible but not as directly confirmed on current public-facing institutional pages. ([78.mchs.gov.ru](https://78.mchs.gov.ru/deyatelnost/press-centr/novosti/5311667))
Training node
Placemark 5 matches the 40th Russian Center for Rescuer Training, which official MChS pages describe as a structural subdivision of the Noginsky center. MChS states that it opened in 1996 and trains rescuers and specialist cadres for MChS and other agencies in rescue, sapper/EOD, driver, industrial-alpinist, hydraulic-tool maintenance, explosive-work and parachute disciplines; the same Noginsky complex also hosts the 46th Canine Center, which MChS describes as its only RKF-registered breeding kennel. ([noginsky-sc.organizations.mchs.gov.ru](https://noginsky-sc.organizations.mchs.gov.ru/obuchenie/40-rcps?utm_source=openai))
Operational relevance
Recent official reporting shows these regional centers are active operational nodes rather than ceremonial designations. Noginsky pages recorded receipt and dispatch of emergency material reserves and airlift loading in 2024; Kaliningrad MChS reported Nevskiy deminers destroying a WWII FAB-50 on 27 June 2025; and the Don center’s mission page includes CBRN reconnaissance, EOD, firefighting, evacuation, and humanitarian cargo delivery, while its institutional page states it forms aid columns for Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson areas. This gives the Moscow HQ a verified nationwide network for response, training, EOD and logistics oversight. ([noginsky-sc.organizations.mchs.gov.ru](https://noginsky-sc.organizations.mchs.gov.ru/deyatelnost/hronologiya-raboty-noginskogo-sc-mchs-rossii?utm_source=openai))