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01:06, 09.10.2009 | Far East Russia

A large-scale exercise of rescuers has begun in the Russian Primorsky territory.

Over a period of two days, the participating rescuers will be expected to simulate actions they might need in the course of liquidation of emergency situations involving nuclear radiation, as well as chemical and biological contaminants, and to drill evacuation of residents from the zones of contamination and their provisional placement in shelters.

Federal and territorial organizations and departments are taking part in the exercise.

Russia’s Pacific Fleet and the Center for Disaster Response Medicine have also delegated their workers to the exercise.

Sources at the press service at the territorial branch of the Ministry for Emergency Situations Response and Civil Defense /EMERCOM/ said that the exercise aims to lubricate cooperation between various agencies of executive power and the territorial administration, especially when it comes accommodation of the people evacuated from the zone of a natural or technogene origin.

For instance, an evacuation station will be provisionally deployed near an airdrome in the suburbs Vladivostok where the evacuated population will be placed.

EMERCOM experts from Moscow and Khabarovsk will assess the rescuers’ activity.

Earlier in the day, a naval exercise involving diverse units and forces of Russia’s Pacific Fleet has begun off the shores of the Far-Eastern Primorsky territory.

Officials at the Pacific Fleet’s press service said the maneuvers engage eight warships, submarines and auxiliary seacraft, as well as aircraft and helicopters of the Air Force and the Fleet’s air defenses.

Over the three days that the ships will spend in the sea, their crews will simulate a search operation, track down a submarine of the potential enemy and destroy it with the aid of deepwater bombs and torpedoes.

“The submarine crew playing the role of the enemy will be expected to break through a triple ring of antisubmarine forces in the conditions of a virtually duel situation and to deliver a strike at the main enemy targets in the groupings of ships,” a spokesman for the press service said.

All in all, the scenario of the maneuvers envisions more than a dozen combat exercises.

Apart from the search operation, the Pacific Fleet units will do artillery firing at surface targets, launch missile at imagined aerial targets, and drill anti-subversion measures

This exercise marks the last phase of the 2009 summer war games.