EMERCOM of Russia carries out management, coordination, control and response in the field of civil defense, protection of population and territories from emergencies, provision of fire safety and safety of people on water bodies.

EMERCOM of Russia carries out its activities directly and through its system of territorial bodies and bodies specifically authorized to solve the problems of civil defense and tasks of prevention and elimination of emergencies in the subjects of the Russian Federation, the Federal Fire Department of the State Fire Service (hereinafter - the Federal Fire Department), rescue military formations of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, State Inspectorate for Small Vessels of the EMERCOM of RUSSIA, emergency rescue and search-and-rescue formations, paramilitary mountain rescue units, educational, scientific, medical, sanatorium-resort and other institutions and organizations under the jurisdiction of the EMERCOM of RUSSIA, as well as through representatives of the EMERCOM of RUSSIA in the representative offices of the Russian Federation to international organizations. To solve humanitarian tasks outside the Russian Federation, a Russian national humanitarian emergency response corps shall be created from part of the forces of the Russian EMERCOM system.