Central Museum of EMERCOM of Russia

Central Museum of the Ministry of the Russian Federation on Civil Defense, Emergency Situations and Elimination of the Consequences of Natural Disasters

Scientific-research and educational institution, founded in 1994 by transforming the Museum of GO into the Central Museum of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia. Placed on the funds of the Training and Methodological Center for Civil Defense and Emergency Situations of the State University of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia in Moscow (Moscow, Zhipisnaya St., 28). The museum carries out research and educational work on the collection, research, storage and exhibition of monuments of the national history of the MPVO, GO and the unified state system of prevention and liquidation of emergency situations, as well as museum materials on major accidents, catastrophes, including radiation, natural and other disasters and work on the elimination of their consequences, materials on underwater work for special purposes. In the Museum of St. 2 thousand units of museum objects and materials of the main fund, 4 main permanent expositions: History of creation, development and functioning of MPVO, GO and unified state system of prevention and liquidation of emergency situations; Place of achievement - Chernobyl; Emergencies of natural and man-made nature; permanent exhibition "Attention - Air Alert", dedicated to the elimination of the consequences of German aviation attacks on Moscow during the Great Patriotic War. There are thematic traveling exhibitions created by the museum: “History of the creation, development and functioning of the MPVO-GO-RSCHS”; “Local air defense on the defense of Moscow during the Great Patriotic War”. The museum provides methodological assistance in the creation and operation of single-profile museums and rooms of the history of the MPVO-GO-RSCHS. Heads of the Central Museum of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia since 1978: Pragnimak G.A., Osadchuk N.S., Golovin A.M., Grishin V.A., Dorofeev V.N., Fedoseyev A.A., Levin S.F., Belotelov A.L.