State Emergency Service of Ukraine

History

The former ministry was created in 1996 with the merger of the state civil defense body and the Ukrainian ministry in charge of protecting the population from the consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe. Until 1991, the latter was a state committee of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR, while state civil defense was part of the USSR's All-Union civil defense network.

In 2003, the ministry took over control of the firefighting service, previously under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (militsiya). The ministry had been part of the military reserve of the Ukrainian armed forces, but after the 2003 reform and fire services merger, all militarized formations were dissolved, and in 2005, the agency became officially non-military and focused on rescue services.

Until the administrative reform of December 9, 2010, the body was called Ministry of Ukraine in emergencies and the protection of the population from the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. After the reform, three major central executive power bodies were directly subordinated to it:

• State service of mining supervision and industrial safety of Ukraine (, Russian: Державна служба гірничого нагляду та промислової безпеки України)
• State agency of Ukraine of the administration of the zone of alienation (, Russian: Государственное агентство Украины по управлению зоной отчуждения)
• State inspection of technogenic safety of Ukraine (, Russian: Государственная инспекция техногенной безопасности Украины) ;Other agencies
• State department of fire-prevention security (see firefighting)
• State search and rescue aviation service: Ukraviaposhuk
• State hydro-meteorological service
• State department of the insurance documentation fund of the Ministry

On December 24, 2012, the Ministry of Emergencies of Ukraine was transformed into the State Emergency Service

Structure

Main body

• Central Bureau of Emergency Situations

Specialized formations

• State militarized mining rescue brigade (Kryvyi Rih)
• Dnipro militarized mining rescue brigade

Other agencies

• Ukrainian Hydro-meteorological Center
• Ukrainian Aviation Meteorological Center
• Main Aviation Coordination Center of search and rescue
• "Rescuer"-Inform Information Analytical Center
• Center of Civil Security 112
• Mobile Rescue Center (Kyiv)
• Odesa Sanatorium (Odesa)

List of heads of the State Emergency Service

Former agency executives (prior to 2012 reorganisation)

List of former chiefs of state civil defense

List of ministers of emergencies

Ranks

Medals

File:Медаль «Ветеран служби» (ДСУНС).png|25 years in service File:Медаль «20 років сумлінної служби» (ДСУНС).png|20 years in service File:Медаль «15 років сумлінної служби» (ДСУНС).png|15 years in service File:Медаль «10 років сумлінної служби» (ДСУНС).png|10 years in service File:Нагрудний знак «За відвагу в надзвичайній ситуації».png|For bravery in an emergency File:Нагрудний знак «Знак Пошани» (ДСУНС).png|For honorable service

State Emergency Service Aviation

The Special Aviation Unit and Operational Rescue Service of the State Emergency Service (Спеціальний авіаційний загін оперативно-рятувальної служби цивільного захисту) is based in the city of Nizhyn.

The Special Aviation Unit can work independently or in cooperation with other State Emergency Service units to protect population and territory, material and cultural values and the environment during emergencies, especially for work performed under difficult conditions.

Gallery

File:Fire station in Lviv (6, Pidvalna Street) 3.jpg|The main Lviv fire station File:MNS An-32.jpg|A State Emergency Service Antonov An-32 firefighting aircraft dropping water on a forest fire File:KamAZ fire engine in Ukraine.JPG|Fire engines and emergency service personnel responding to an incident in Kyiv, 2010 File:MNS helicopter.jpg|An Emergency Service EC145 helicopter landing in Kyiv File:2011. День защиты детей в Донецке 119.jpg|Emergency service equipment on display in Donetsk, 2011 File:H225 Super Puma helicopter Number 54 in 2020.jpg|The EC225 Super Puma that crashed on January 18, 2023 killing Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Denys Monastyrsky, his deputy Yevhen Yenin, State Secretary Yurii Lubkovych and 11 other people photographed in November 2020

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