Khabarovsk rescuers will hold drills in polar night conditions for the first time

Khabarovsk rescuers and flight crews of the Ministry of Emergency Situations are preparing for the pilot research exercise "Safe Arctic - 2025". They are scheduled for the end of the year.

As IA AmurMedia reports with reference to the press service of the Emergencies Ministry's Main Department in the region, the training was joint, it took place during the day and night at the airfield in the suburbs of Khabarovsk. According to Anton Volodkin, head of the flight training and flight safety department of the Khabarovsk Air Rescue Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, flights at a height of more than 2 thousand meters and parachute landing of rescuers were performed.

The tasks of landing people and cargo are complicated by Arctic temperatures and polar night. They have been performed many times by Khabarovsk rescuers of the SAR and pilots of the Khabarovsk Air Rescue Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Experimental and research exercises in the Arctic will be held for the first time in polar night conditions. The objectives are to test new samples of equipment and techniques in difficult conditions, to practice and improve interagency cooperation during emergency response in the Russian Arctic zone.

The exercise will involve members of the search and rescue squad of the Main Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region and the Khabarovsk Air Rescue Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia.

In mid-October it was reported about the discovery of a boat with three people in the Sea of Okhotsk. It was found after two months of drifting. Only one person survived. The boat set off back on August 9 from Cape Perovsky in Khabarovsk Krai to Moskalvo in Sakhalin Oblast. On board were relatives - two men and a 15-year-old teenager.