[1] State Fire Service divisions participate in over two million operations a year, rescue over 90,000 lives, save property evaluated as high as 120 billion rubles.

Six months after the October Revolution, on April 17, 1918, Vladimir Lenin signed a decree on organisation of activities for firefighting, which was considered the birth date for the Soviet State Fire service.

At the end of 1930, the Main Directorate of Public Utilities and the Police Department were separated from the NKVD and transferred to the direct subordination of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR.

On March 4, 1931, the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR issues a document on the centralization of the republic's fire service.

Professional fire protection was created in cities, urban-type settlements, regional centers, as well as at national economic facilities.

[7] Since 1965, units and divisions of the Moscow paramilitary fire department began to be staffed by persons called up for active military service.

[9] On 17 April 1918 the decree "On the organization of state measures to combat fire" was issued and that date was considered as the unofficial professional holiday.

[14] Financial support of the Fire Service of the Russian Federation is carried out by means of: In Russia, the decals are applied symmetrically on both sides of the helmet (front and rear).

The Russian Fire Service uses a number of different models of appliances which range greatly in age and technical abilities.