Ministry of Emergency Situations

The Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergency Situations and Liquidation of Consequences of Natural Disasters, also known as the Ministry of Emergency Situations, or internationally as EMERCOM, is a Russian government agency overseeing the civil emergency services in Russia.

President Boris Yeltsin established EMERCOM on January 10, 1994, though the ministry can be traced back to December 27, 1990, when the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic established the Russian Rescue Corps and assigned it the mission of rapid response in the case of emergencies.