The journal contains the following thematic sections (headings) that correspond to the Nomenclature of scientific specialties, approved by the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia No. 59, dated February 25, 2009 (as amended and supplemented):
The journal reviews and accepts articles on the specific topics:

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2.1.15. – Safety of construction objects (technical sciences)

Improving the fire safety of a new composite finishing material by modifying its composition

Evgeniya B. Anosova1,
Sergey M. Lyashenko1,
Ramil R. Fatyhov1,
Elena I. Tyutneva2

1The Civil Defence Academy of EMERCOM of Russia, Khimki, Russia,
2Concept Tree LLC, Moscow, Russia

Previously conducted studies [1] allowed us to approximately assume the nature of the behavior of new composite materials under the influence of heat flow and elevated temperature. As the results showed, the samples of the materials considered are combustible and in fire conditions can become a source of additional danger if they are placed on evacuation routes. In order to reduce the level of flammability, Concept Tree LLC has modified the composition of its products by adding sodium tetraborate (borax) to one of the composites. This work is devoted to the assessment of fire-hazardous properties and the establishment of a fire hazard class of a modified composite material, according to standard GOST methods and thermoanalytical studies.

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Fire resistance of translucent enclosing building structures with water irrigation

Makhach M. Kaziev1,
Vladimir I. Bezborodov2,
Evgenij V. Vagenleytner3

1Academy of State Fire Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, Moscow, Russia,
2,3Orenburg branch VNIIPO of the EMERCOM of Russia, Orenburg, Russia

The article summarizes and analyzes the research experience of domestic and foreign scientists on the use of water irrigation to increase the fire resistance of translucent enclosing structures. The results of field experiments to determine the criteria for the destruction of conventional and special glasses with water irrigation are presented. Based on the results of the conducted research, the actual area of further research has been determined.

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Determination of the area controlled by video cameras of the early fire detection system

Andrey V. Bogdanov; Julia S. Kozlova; Georgiy A. Polunin
South-Ural State University (national research university), Chelyabinsk, Russia

The article considers the scheme of the rational arrangement of video cameras of the early fire detection system, which ensures the exclusion of blind sides, as well as coverage of the entire controlled area by surveillance. The analytical dependence has been obtained, which makes it possible to calculate the area of the controlled territory depending on the observation range of the video camera.

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Features of the effectiveness of flame retardants for wood

Ivan N. Tatarkin; Aleksey N. Baturo; Nikolay V. Martinovich; Christina A. Korneychuk
Siberian Fire and Rescue Academy EMERCOM of Russia, Zheleznogorsk, Russia

The article investigates the effectiveness of the interaction of flame retardants for different types of wood during thermal destruction in a muffle furnace, presents the results of the experiment.

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2.3.4. – Management in organizational systems (technical sciences)

Automation of decision-making procedures for attributing objects of supervision to a certain category of risk in the field of fire safety

Denis V. Zobkov
EMERCOM of Russia, Moscow, Russia

The provisions on the development of technologies for automating decision-making procedures for assigning objects of supervision located in the possession and (or) use (operation) of organizations and citizens, to a certain category of risk in the implementation of federal state fire supervision. A description is given of the structure of the automated decision support system and its basic algorithms, which are used to develop software modules for carrying out computational procedures for assigning objects of supervision to a certain risk category.

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On the need to create a voluntary certification system «Arctic quality mark»

Sergei P. Amelchugov; Aleksei N. Baturo; Aleksei V. Ukolov
Siberian Fire and Rescue Academy EMERCOM of Russia, Zheleznogorsk, Russia

Quite a large number of voluntary certification systems have been created in the Russian Federation. Creation of a system of voluntary certification of the Siberian Federal University “Arctic Quality Mark”, the main criterion for the creation of which is its accreditation abroad, because the construction of modern mining, transport and processing complexes is carried out, as a rule, within the framework of international projects, with the involvement of foreign technical specialists who are focused on the use of technological equipment that has certificates according to international standards, the same applies to the supply of products for export.

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Trends in changes in the risks of natural hazards in the Russian Arctic, on the example of the forest zone of Eastern Siberia

Аleksandr V. Kholoptsev1,2,
Roman G. Shubkin2,
Ivan U. Sergeev1,
Aleksey N. Baturo1,
Aleksandr V. Antonov1

1Siberian Fire and Rescue Academy EMERCOM of Russia, Zheleznogorsk, Russia,
2State Oceanographic Institute named after N.N. Zubov, Sevastopol, Russia

The current trends of changes in average monthly air temperatures in the Arctic and Forest land-scape zone of Eastern Siberia, as well as the relationships of these processes with variations in the total area of wormwood, which are formed in the summer months in the ice cover of the seas of Laptev and East Siberia. It is shown that in many territories of the Arctic zone of Eastern Siberia, significant changes in average monthly temperatures of summer months in 2010-2020. As a result, the risks of many natural hazards could not be increased. Therefore, the probable cause of their ac-tual increase is anthropogenic.

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Fire site survey features to obtain information needed to address regulatory specialization issues

Andranik K. Topkaryan1,
Roman L. Belousov2,
Nikita A. Drojin3,
Afanasy I. Arashtayev4

1The Civil Defence Academy of EMERCOM of Russia, Khimki, Russia,
2The National Crisis Management Center of the Emergencies Ministry, Moscow, Russia,
3The Civil Defence Academy of EMERCOM of Russia, Khimki, Russia,
4The Main Directorate of the Emergencies Ministry, Moscow, Russia

This article proposes an approach to solving the problem of rational distribution of forces and means of the unified state system for the prevention and liquidation of emergency situations (hereinafter referred to as RSChS) for the prevention of wildfires according to space monitoring data. The approach is based on the theory of schedules, in particular, the method of sequential analysis and elimination of unpromising options. The initial data is the number of operational groups designed to confirm a natural fire according to the detection of thermal points, the number of all detected thermal points, the time the operational group checks each thermal point. By a certain analysis and screening out of unpromising sequences of work, an acceptable set of sequences is determined. From a valid set of sequences, the most optimal one is selected. The example demonstrates the algorithm for solving the problem.

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Development of a model of an automated monitoring system for main gas pipelines in order to ensure fire and industrial safety

Vyacheslav G. Burlov2,
Yuriy D. Kuznetsov1,
Sergei U. Kapitsyn1

1Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia,
2Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

In order to increase main gas pipelines fire safety level consideration of safety ensuring approach developed on the basis of synthesis is executed. The inverse problem of safety management based on natural-scientific approach to the management synthesis is solved during the main gas pipeline safety level analysis in conditions of limited resources. Modeling threat occurrence and safety ensuring processes is executed using the Kolmogorov equations system and Markov processes. As a result of modeling, quantitative values of safety criterions were determined in systems with applied automated monitoring and without it. Calculations substantiate the necessity to use automated monitoring systems for enhancement of safety criterion value.

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To the problem of the development of a digital system for monitoring the general situation and emergencies in time of peace and war

Ilya A. Sheremetiev1,
Alexander M. Kostetsky1,
Petr M. Yudanov1,
Igor S. Katorzhin1,
Ivan Yu. Sergeev2

1The Civil Defence Academy of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, Khimki, Russia,
2Siberian Fire and Rescue Academy EMERCOM of Russia, Zheleznogorsk, Russia

This article is devoted to the applicability of neural networks for automatic analysis of images from CCTV cameras in real time for rapid response to emergencies (hereinafter referred to as emergencies) arising from landslides and mudflows. To design the architecture of the neural network and control its parameters, the high-level software platform tensorflow keras (hereinafter referred to as the platform) was used. The completeness metric (recall) at the level of 94.4% shows the success of the chosen approach. The results of this work can be used in the development of specialized software for the prevention of emergencies in rural areas and avalanche-prone regions and in the development of a digital system for monitoring the general situation of emergencies in peacetime, which will speed up the processing of information, as well as reduce the time for bringing operational information to the authorities and rescue units of the EMERCOM of Russia.

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Justification of the need to use the medical and psychological service as part of special fire and rescue units in the subjects of the Russian Federation

Evgeny V. Bobrinev1,
Elena Yu. Udavtsova2,
Andrey A. Kondashov3,
Tatiana A. Shavyrina4,
Oleg V. Streltsov5

All-Russian Research Institute of Fire Protection of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, Balashikha, Russia,
1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8169-62973,
2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1343-0849,
3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2730-1669,
4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1158-2141,
5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1392-4849

Using the theory of fuzzy sets, a mathematical model has been developed to justify the need to use the medical and psychological service as part of specialized fire and rescue units of the Federal Fire Service of the State Fire Service. The model takes into account the climatic and geographical features of the subjects, indicators of social and technical and economic development, and the risks of emergencies and fires. It also takes into account the availability of forces and means of a unified state system for the prevention and liquidation of emergency situations. Using the developed model, the subjects in which the need for medical and psychological service as part of specialized fire and rescue units is the highest are identified. In these subjects, it is proposed to use the medical and psychological service of the 1st and 2nd categories.

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On the approach to minimizing material risk in emergency situations (floods) caused by congestion

Evgeniy V. Ivanov; Pavel N. Tkachenko; Yuliya A. Tkachenko; Vladimir A. Nesterov
Civil Defense Academy EMERCOM of Russia, Khimki, Russia

The article is devoted to the description of the approach to minimizing the material risk of floods resulting from congestion. The mathematical and verbal formulation of the problem is formulated. The direction of its solution is the search for such a list and volumes of engineering and technical measures that minimize the function of material risk from floods caused by congestion. It is concluded that it is possible in principle to divide all engineering and technical measures into two large groups, in accordance with the specifics of the research task. A system of resource and time constraints is formed and an approach to solving the optimization problem is demonstrated.

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Training, Propaganda and Education of the Population in the Field of Life Safety

Features to the future profession attitudes formation in gender-homogeneous and co-educational groups of cadets

Yuri G. Baskin1,
Galina B. Svidzinskaya2

1,2Saint-Petersburg University of State Fire Service of EMERCOM of Russia, Saint Petersburg, Russia,
1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-6805,
2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9535-217X

The semantic differential method was employed to analyze attitudes to the future profession on gender-homogeneous and co-educational cadet groups studying in the specialty “Forensic examination” of St. Petersburg University of State fire service of EMERCOM of Russia during the total training period. The time history of that attitude to the chosen profession during the learning period was revealed. It is shown that the attitude to the future profession depends on the cadet gender and in the initial period is largely determined by the gender structure of the group; the formation of co-educational groups in the universities of enforcement structure allows to create a comfortable educational environment, which is especially important during the period of adaptation to new conditions when forming motivation to master a profession.

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On the issue of patriotic education of students educational organizations of law enforcement agencies

Yulia G. Khlopovskikh1,
Ivan A. Prokudin2

1Siberian Fire and Rescue Academy of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, Zheleznogorsk, Russia,
2Voronezh Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Voronezh, Russia

The essence and dynamics of the formation of patriotism as a core quality of personality are considered. The results of an empirical study aimed at studying the level of patriotic education, the peculiarities of patriotic feelings of cadets of educational organizations of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia are presented.

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Adolescents’ ideas about behavior in fire-hazardous situations: current regional state and development

Kristina A. Polyakova1,
Roman Yu. Polyakov2,
Artem S. Artemov3,
Vitaly I. Fedyanin4,
Galina A. Kvashnina5

1,2,3Bunin Yelets State University,
4,5Voronezh State Technical University,
1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1334-3590,
2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6222-2050,
3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-1648

Today, it is necessary to pay special attention to the issues of fire safety of adolescents. This problem has become relevant due to the constant monitoring of the causes of fires and disappointing statistics for 2018 – 2021, where the careless handling of teenagers with fire stands out among the main causes of fires.

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Improvement of the remuneration system for employees (firefighters) of state and municipal fire protection institutions

Andrei V. Kalach1,2,
Valentin I. Plakhotin2,3,
Denis I. Sotnikov4,
Nikolay V. Martinovich5,
Marina V. Petukhova6

1Ural Institute of GPS of the Ministry of EMERCOM of Russia, Yekaterinburg, Russia,
2Civil Defense, public Protection and fire safety of the Voronezh region, Voronezh, Russia,
3Boronezh Branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Voronezh, Russia,
4Voronezh State Industrial and Humanitarian College, Voronezh, Russia,
5Siberian Fire and Rescue Academy EMERCOM of Russia, Zheleznogorsk, Russia,
6Civil Defence Academy of Emercom of Russia, Moscow, Russia

Based on the municipal state institution of the Usmansky 2nd rural settlement of the Novousmansky municipal district of the Voronezh Region, the authors show a remuneration mechanism developed by the authors that guarantees employees of State and municipal fire protection institutions to pay monthly labor standards not lower than the level established in the territory of the Russian Federation Federal Minimum Wage.

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Fire and Industrial Safety. Fire and Industrial Safety

Foam possibility for forest fire fighting

Nikolay I. Chepelev; Sergei N. Orlovsky
Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University,Krasnoyarsk, Russia

A review of the literature on the use of foams in the fight against forest fires is given. The results of studies of the stability and expansion of foams depending on various conditions are presented. It is established that for the laying of fire support strips it is necessary to use air-mechanical high-expansion foam, and for permanent barrier strips, solid foams. Designs of foam generators are considered.

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Forest fires in the Khabarovsk Territory. The effectiveness of fire barriers

Aleksei M. Orlov1,6,
Iurii А. Andreev2,7,
Vladimir V. Chakov3,
Viktoriia V. Pozdniakova4,
Oksana S. Gromyko5

1,2,4,5Far Eastern Research Institute of Forestry, Khabarovsk, Russia,
3,6The Institute of Water and Environmental Sciences of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Khabarovsk, Russia,
7Siberian Fire and Rescue Academy EMERCOM of Russia, Zheleznogorsk, Russia

The article analyzes some of the main indicators of the fire hazard situation in the forests of the Khabarovsk Territory over the past few years, in particular, fire hazard, natural and weather conditions; causes, number and area of forest fires; average distance from forest fires to the nearest settlements; dependence of the relative number of fires on the distance to the nearest settlement. The results of studies on the actual state of the main elements of the fire-fighting arrangement of the forest fund – mineralized strips and fire-fighting roads are given. An assessment of the effectiveness of fire barriers based on a survey is given and conclusions are drawn. Federal and sectoral statistics, government reports, scientific and methodological publications, as well as the authors’ own research were used as initial data.

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Plow universal forest POOL-2

Nikolay I. Chepelev; Sergei N. Orlovsky
Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

The types of tools for laying mineralized strips in the fight against forest fires are considered. The design of a universal forest plow with disk working bodies is analyzed, which is designed for laying fire-fighting mineralized strips, strip soil preparation with furrows on soddy, not uprooted clearings with well-drained soils, and tillage in strips with the formation of micro-elevations for forest crops on fresh and slightly soddy, not uprooted canopies. – cuttings with the number of stumps up to 600 pcs/ha. The plow can be used with caterpillar forestry tractors LHT-55 and LHT-100, as well as with wheeled tractors of the MTZ-82 type. It has been established that for the laying of fire-fighting mineralized support strips and barrier barriers, the use of this rogue will make it possible to move to a higher level of technical equipment for forestry, both in terms of the quality of the work performed, and in terms of cost reduction, as well as to abandon obsolete equipment.

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