Aerial Forest Protection Service (Russia)

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Satellite image of a forest fire in Russia

The Aerial Forest Protection Service (Авиалесоохрана, or Avialesookhrana)

Republic of Mongolia and Cuba create their own forest-fire prevention agencies.[4]

History

Forest fire near Roshal town 13 August 2010

On July 7, 1931, using the

Moscow region
.

The Avialesookhrana first began experimenting with paratroopers in 1934 under the direction of G. A. Mokeeva. Initially, these smokejumpers landed in populated areas to alert local communities, and mobilize local fire-fighting services to combat the wildfires; these experiments were very successful.

The agency replaced their outdated

fire-retardants
in the same craft, significantly reducing the time it took to effectively suppress a wildfire.

Ostrovtsy forest fires 2010

From 16 to August 24, 1954, in

Zagorsk, the first successful tests using the Mi-4 helicopter to perform the maintenance tasks of forestry were conducted. During the tests, Mi-4 helicopters were used to patrol the forests and flown to forest fires. This resulted in a new professional category: "commando-fire".[clarification needed
]

On March 18, 1958, the governing body for all of the data collected by the aerial surveillance of the forests (the Far East,

RSFSR. the total protected area was 547 million hectares
.

June 22, 1962, saw the completion of tests of a special release mechanism drum (SS-B) for dropping material from a helicopter hovering over the clearings in the forest, making it possible to deliver people and supplies directly to the edge of a forest fire. In 1978 an engineer for Science and Technology Laboratory, N. Pushkarev, developed the descender roller (SS-P), which is more secure. A further development from this, the SU-P, is in use today.[clarification needed]

In 2005, a system was developed and put in place for the remote monitoring of forest fires by the Federal Forestry Agency (FFA-ISDM). Work on the creation of this system was carried out by a consortium of institutes of the

GPS
technologies to create daily reporting and decision-making.

In 2007, the forest protection air bases – branches of FGU "Avialesookhrana" – were eliminated. Instead, they have been reorganized as specialized state budgetary or autonomous agencies, subordinate to the executive authorities of the

Russian Federation
.

Functions

Under the provisions of the Forest Code (federal law on December 4, 2006), FGU "Avialesookhrana" is responsible for:

  • Monitoring fire danger and consequences of fires.
  • Participation in monitoring the use of public authorities of the Russian Federation delegated powers in the field of forest relations.
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of the use of subsidies allocated to the subjects of the Russian Federation to carry out the delegated powers in terms of forest fire protection.
  • Forest fire monitoring forest in the Moscow region.
  • Training and retraining of specialists in the field of monitoring and protection of forests.

Department heads

  • Nikolai Danilin 18-3-1958 – 30-5-1960
  • Viacheslav Podolski 06-1-1960 – 5-3-1978
  • Nikolai Andreev 04-05-1978 – 02-10-2000
  • Nikolai Kovalev 02-10-2000 – December 2011
  • Andrey Kalinin December 2011 – July 2015
  • Vladimir Grishin July 2015 to present

References

  1. ^ "GFMC: Avialesookhrana – the Aerial Forest Protection Service, Federal ForestService of Russia – GFMC".
  2. ^ "Avialesookhrana website (with photographs of equipment) in English". Archived from the original on 2009-07-04. Retrieved 2012-11-13.
  3. ^ National Geographic article on Russian smokejumpers
  4. ^ "ФГУ "Авиалесоохрана"". Aviales.ru. Archived from the original on 2012-09-24. Retrieved 2012-08-06.

External links

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