IZHEVSK. June 6 (Interfax-AVN) - A two-day command post research exercise involving control bodies and forces assigned for the elimination of consequences of emergencies started at the chemical weapons storage base in the town of Kambarka in the Udmurtian autonomous republic on Thursday.
The exercise is preceded by a seminar called "State Environmental Monitoring of a Chemical Weapons Storage and Destruction Facility in the Town of Kambarka of the Udmurtian Republic." Udmurtian Emergencies Minister Tamazi Gabrichidze will make a report at the seminar.
Participants in the exercise will practice notification and evacuation of people, conduction of radiation, chemical and biological intelligence, degassing of installations, transportation of chemical cargo, etc., Gabrichidze told Interfax-Military News Agency.
An exhibition of protection assets will take place in the course of the training. It will feature individual protection means for potential danger zones, a set of rescuers' individual protection means, equipment ensuring safe storage and transportation of poisonous substances, means of operational control of chemical danger, and developments related to establishment of an environmental monitoring system at a chemical weapons storage base.
A spokesman for the Russian Emergencies Ministry said the exercise would involve Sergei Kiriyenko, chairman of the state commission on chemical disarmament, as well as Russian Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu and Director General of the Russian Ammunition Agency Zinovy Pak.