1994: United Nations accreditation and performance at Second International Conference of Civil Defense and Emergency Rescue

September, 1994: Test for US Forest Service in Farnborough, England (report stipulates potential for designation of the IL-76 as an "Emergency Supplemental Air Tanker" following further testing).

1995: Joint Arctic Rescue Exercise performed with Hercules' or C-130 military aircraft from USA and Canada

March, 1995: Australian demo at ASTA-Avalon airport near Melbourne by Air Show Down Under supported by Australian local volunteer loading crews.

October, 1995: Australian Fire Authorities Council (as it was then known) drop testing and foam retardant certification performed at Ilyushin Flight Research Base, Zhukovsky, Russia.

February, 1998: EMERCOM crew training and accreditation for "Disaster Preparedness"held jointly with US National Guard, Department of Defense, and FEMA at National Interagency Counter Drug Institute, San Luis Obispo, California.

August, 1998: Greece's government asked Russia for assistance on Greece's worst wildfires in 100 years. Gen. Demetrios Lavrentakis, head of the Interior Ministry's Civil Protection arm, said "Wherever there was an emergency situation, (the IL-76 waterbomber) went," he says, "and wherever it went, it was very effective."

Joint Space Mission astronaut/cosmonaut steep dives weightlessness training aircraft.

February, 1999: EMERCOM search and rescue operations in Armenia and in Colombia's earthquakes: IL-76 airplane transported equipment, forty men, and sniffer-dogs.

August 1999: EMERCOM's firefighting IL-76 battles potentially disasterous fire in post-earthquake zone Izmit, Turkey.

March, 2000: IL-76 airplane facilitated the EMERCOM humanitarian mission to the floods of Mozambique

January 2001: EMERCOM's the Russian specialists saved 19 people from the ruins af the quake-stricken town of Bhuj.

September 2001: IL-76 aircraft was first to respond (from Denmark) to Afghanistan relief efforts. EMERCOM will be playing an ongoing role in Afghan relief operations despite threats of anti-aircraft fire from the Taliban.

September, 2002: Noginsk, Russia - Il-76 firefighting jets participate in giant Russia - NATO civil defence exercise. "There are things here that the United States can learn and I think that we will learn from our observations," said FEMA Deputy Director Michael Brown, who attended the exercise as part of a US team of some 30 observers from the Defense Department, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and other US government branches.

December, 2004: Asia tsunami relief: EMERCOM and Russian military Il-76 aircraft, in addition to those of the Indian Air Force and privately chartered Il-76s play a vital strategic role airlifting supplies, equipment, and relief workers to disaster zones around the Indian Ocean.

August, 2005: The day before the levees of New Orleans gave way to the forces of Hurricane Katrina, the Russian Federation offered humanitarian aid to the United States.  Two (2) EMERCOM IL-76 aircraft landed at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock, Arkansas September 8. This marks the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.

July, 2007:  Highly successful firefighting missions of record to Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Serbia together with acceptance of a request by Greece to supplement existing Russian aviation firefighting with IL-76 waterbombing where continued disastrous fire conditions prevailed.