The manufacture of rescue and fire-fighting equipment has come on an industrial footing in Russia, he said.
To last into May 28, the show has gathered 280 corporate exhibitors from fourteen countries. The involved manufacturers and R&D offices specialise in emergency relief and fire extinguishing, report ministerial PR.
Sponsoring and promoting the show are Russia's Security Council, ministries of Education and Research, Natural Resources and Environment Protection, Transport, Information Technologies and Communications, and Defence. The Moscow municipal and regional administrations are also active.
The sixteen stands illustrate fire fighting, environment protection, and industrial and traffic safety efforts. Among the exhibits are pioneer individual and mass rescue devices, protective clothes, rescuers' and firemen's equipment, rescue aircraft, and water search-and-rescue devices.
26 of related manufacturing companies belong to the military-industrial complex, said Mr. Shoigu. 85% of equipment used in Russia is of domestic design and manufacture, and merely 15% imported. The share of Russian items is increasing every year.
Many Russian achievements are unprecedented in the world-suffice it to mention the Lidar installation for long-distance air pollution monitoring, or heavy robots for poisoned and nuclear-contaminated areas, added the minister.
When asked how to use all those fine technologies in practice, and how to prevent calamity-caused deaths, he said it was a baffling problem. 33,000 Russian settlements have no stationary fire brigades, and half of those ill-starred settlements are not on the phone exchange.
"This is a huge problem, and we are working to solve it. This show will surely help the job," he said.
