Short name: Roshydromet 
Full name: Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring 
Higher executive authority: Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation There are no 
foreign representative offices or subordinate bodies of state power. The Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring has no.

Powers, Tasks and Functions

In accordance with the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated July 23, 2004 No. 372 “On the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring”, as amended by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated May 29, 2008 No. 404, Roshydromet is a federal executive body carrying out state services in the field of hydrometeorology and related areas, environmental monitoring, its pollution, state supervision over the work impact on meteorological and other geophysical processes. The provision of state services in the field of hydrometeorology and related areas, environmental monitoring and pollution is carried out by Roshydromet in the manner established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Roshydromet in this area of ​​activity ensures the fulfillment of the obligations of the Russian Federation under international treaties of the Russian Federation, including the Convention of the World Meteorological Organization, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty.

Fundamental to the activities of Roshydromet as an authorized federal executive body in the field of environmental monitoring and pollution is ensuring the right of citizens to reliable information about the state of the environment, enshrined in Art. 42 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

Roshydromet carries out its activities directly and through its territorial bodies in cooperation with other federal executive bodies, executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local governments, public associations and other organizations.

Roshydromet's activities are based on the international exchange of hydrometeorological and other information on the state of the environment at the global level. The Government of the Russian Federation on its establishment of February 8, 2002 No. 94 reaffirmed its obligations arising from Russia's participation in the WMO Convention, including the international exchange of hydrometeorological observation data and the implementation of the functions of the World Meteorological Center in Moscow.

Roshydromet's mission is to ensure the hydrometeorological safety of the Russian Federation and provide state services in the field of hydrometeorology, related areas and monitoring of environmental pollution and is aimed at achieving the following national goals:

• improving the quality of life of the population;
• ensuring high rates of sustainable economic growth;
• capacity building for future development;
• increase the level of national security. Hydrometeorological service operates on the basis of the following principles:
• the global nature and continuity of observations of the state of the environment and its pollution;
• unity and comparability of methods for observing the state of the environment, its pollution, as well as methods for collecting, processing, storing and disseminating information obtained from observations;
• safety of work on active influence on meteorological and other geophysical processes;
• integration with domestic and international systems for monitoring the environment and its pollution;
• the effectiveness of using information about the actual and predicted state of the environment, its pollution;
• ensuring the reliability of information on the state of the environment, its pollution, and its accessibility for users (consumers);
• the compliance of the activities of the hydrometeorological service with the tasks of protecting public health, protecting the environment and ensuring environmental and hydrometeorological safety.

Ensuring the protection of the vital interests of the individual, society and the state from the effects of natural hazards, climate change (ensuring hydrometeorological safety) is the first strategic goal of Roshydromet. Activities within the framework of achieving this goal are primarily aimed at reducing losses from hydrometeorological hazardous phenomena (HW) - natural processes and phenomena that, by their intensity (strength), scale of distribution, and duration, have or can have an impact on people animals and plants, objects of economy and environment.

This activity is carried out primarily through the immediate transfer of emergency information about the danger of occurrence and development of nuclear weapons to the National Crisis Management Center of the Unified State System for Preventing and Eliminating Emergencies, as well as by passing storm warnings and / or storm alerts to the public Executive and local authorities.

The task of increasing the effectiveness of active influence on hydrometeorological and geophysical processes and phenomena remains relevant. First of all, it concerns measures to protect the population, recreational centers and economic facilities from avalanches, active influences in order to improve weather conditions during public events, sports competitions, as well as anti-hail protection of agricultural crops.

The second strategic goal of Roshydromet is to meet the needs of the population, state authorities, economic sectors, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Unified State System for the Prevention and Elimination of Emergencies in Hydrometeorological, Heliogeophysical Information, and also Information on the State of the Environment and its Pollution Activities to achieve this goal include:

• providing information on the actual and forecasted state of the environment, its pollution to the population, state authorities, economic sectors, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Unified State System for the Prevention and Liquidation of Emergencies;
• formation of state information resources in the field of hydrometeorology and related areas (meteorology, climatology, agrometeorology, hydrology, oceanology, heliogeophysics), environmental monitoring and pollution.

The third strategic goal of Roshydromet is to provide hydrometeorological support for the activities of the Russian Federation in the Arctic, Antarctic (in the Antarctic Treaty area) and the World Ocean.

Roshydromet's activities within this goal are primarily aimed at developing a network of collection points for hydrometeorological and heliogeophysical information and transmitted survey and forecast information about the state of the environment in the Arctic, Antarctic and in the World Ocean.

Recently, this activity has become particularly important in connection with the solution of tasks related to the development of the natural resources of these regions.

The implementation of the mission and the achievement of strategic goals is carried out by solving the following main tasks of Roshydromet:

• provision of public authorities, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, as well as the public with information on the actual and forecasted state of the environment, its pollution;
• ensuring the release of emergency information about natural hazards, actual and forecasted sudden changes in weather and environmental pollution that may threaten the life and health of the population and cause damage to the environment;
• organizing weather, water, crop production, global and regional climate change forecasts;
• ensuring the work of avalanche service;
• participation in the prescribed manner in the conduct of hydrometeorological examination of development projects;
• coordination in the prescribed manner of the conditions of hydrometeorological and heliogeophysical support for the navigation of ships, flights of aircraft, the work of cosmonauts in space, the conduct of rescue operations;
• research of hydrometeorological and heliogeophysical processes in the atmosphere, on the land surface, in the World Ocean, the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as in near-Earth space in terms of studying and forecasting the radiation situation, the state of the ionosphere and the magnetic field of the Earth;
• state accounting, within its competence, of surface waters and maintenance of the state water registry in terms of surface water bodies in the manner established by the legislation of the Russian Federation;
• maintenance of the Unified State Fund of data on the state of the environment, its pollution;
• ensuring the functioning on the territory of the Russian Federation of points of hydrometeorological observations and a system for receiving, collecting and distributing hydrometeorological information;
• state monitoring of atmospheric air (within its competence);
• state monitoring of water bodies in terms of surface water bodies (within their competence);
• state monitoring of the continental shelf in the manner determined by the legislation of the Russian Federation (within its competence);
• management and control of the activities of the Russian Antarctic Expedition.