On the morning of 1 July 2016, an Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft configured for aerial firefighting and belonging to the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations crashed near Lake Baikal northeast of Irkutsk in Siberia, Russia. All ten crew members were killed.
A Russian Ilyushin Il-76 aerial firefighting aircraft. RA-76840, the aircraft involved in the accident, pictured in 2012.
The Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief is a Russian government agency overseeing the civil emergency services in Russia.
Ministry headquarters in Moscow
Russian Post stamp about EMERCOM
Russian Post stamp about EMERCOM
Sergei Shoigu was Minister from 1991 to 2012