[1] The Russian tsunami warning system development began in 1956 to 1959.
After this, a government decree was issued for the organization of a tsunami warning service.
In 2003, following the creation of the Unified State System for the Prevention and Elimination of Emergency Situations (RSChS; (Russian: РСЧС), the tsunami warning service received the status of a functional subsystem of the unified system with the acronym FP RSChS-Tsunami (Russian: ФП РСЧС-Цунами).
In the second half of 2000, the system began a modernization process which included the deployment of new buoys.
System components are located in Sovetskaya Gavan, Nevelsk, Rudnaya Pristan, Vladivostok, Nakhodka, Preobrazhenye, Uglegorsk, Poronaysk, Starodubskoye, Kholmsk, Korsakov, Cape Crillon, Yuzhno Kurilsk and Vodopadnaya.