The Humanitarian Volunteer Corps (Gumkorpus), with which the RGM has signed an agreement, appears to be a clone of the RGM, albeit one of regional significance. It, too, is an ‘autonomous non-profit organisation’, registered in April 2019.  Its mission and objectives are set out in the typical language of the security services, full of grandiloquence but devoid of substance: ‘This is a non-governmental public association that implements initiatives in the field of intercultural interaction and the development of public diplomacy, as well as the planning and execution of humanitarian missions within Russia and beyond its borders. Our motto is: ‘Through creativity, conscience and justice, we achieve results.’ The outcome of our work is: effective, comprehensive assistance to those affected by emergencies and man-made disasters; and the improvement of the environmental situation on planet Earth through the elimination of the consequences of emergencies and the organisation of local environmental campaigns’ .  The sources of funding for the Humanitarian Corps are not specified, but the ‘Our Supporters’ section lists the Presidential Grants Fund, the government of the Khanty-Mansi Okrug and the Yugra Centre for Civic Initiatives. 
The chairman is Eduard Borisovich Loginov, a local official and member of the Public Chamber of the Khanty-Mansi Okrug, who graduated in 2005 from the Autonomous Non-Profit Organisation ‘West Siberian Humanitarian Institute’ in Tobolsk with a degree in ‘State and Municipal Administration’, though his CV contains some curious details – ‘In December 1999, he was one of the founders of “Sodruzhestvo”, a city-based public organisation for people with disabilities and veterans of local wars and military conflicts; in 2000, he received a “Certificate of Appreciation from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for the selflessness and courage shown in defending the Fatherland”; ‘After his military service, until 2008, he held various posts in the security department of OAO “Surgutgazprom”.’   It is not stated in what capacity, when or where Loginov served in the army, but according to another biography of his, probably dated 2016, he served in the Internal Troops in the Perm Region, and in 1995 was sent to Chechnya to ‘defend the constitutional order’.  
Loginov also headed the predecessor organisation to the ‘Humanitarian Volunteer Corps’ – “In 2014, as part of the ‘Sodruzhestvo’ Regional Public Organisation, the ‘Yugra’ Volunteer Search and Rescue Unit was established, bringing together volunteers from the district to assist the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Emergency Situations forces in Yugra in the search for missing persons. From May 2014, a campaign was launched to collect and deliver humanitarian aid to civilians in the south-eastern regions of Ukraine; this campaign was personally supported by the Governor of Yugra, the heads of local authorities, the managers and staff of municipal and private enterprises, and ordinary residents of the district. To date, the ‘Sodruzhestvo’ Regional Public Organisation, under the leadership of Eduard Loginov, is one of the largest providers of humanitarian aid to the residents of Donbas in the Russian Federation.”  
One particularly telling detail of his biography is as follows: ‘In November 2015, assistance was provided in the delivery of humanitarian aid to Members of the Bundestag (the German Parliament) Andrei Khunko and Wolfgang Herke, and a safe stay for the aforementioned MPs was organised within the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic.’
Bundestag MPs from the Left Party, Andrei Khunko and Wolfgang Herke, did indeed visit the Donbas in 2015, having raised 100,000 euros in humanitarian aid, as reported by the Moscow-based German newspaper.  
It appears that Loginov, together with his organisation of former military personnel (‘veterans of local wars and military conflicts’)   known as the ‘Yugra-Khanty-Mansiysk Search and Rescue Unit’, which in 2019 became part of the newly formed ‘Humanitarian Volunteer Corps’. 
Among the Humanitarian Volunteer Corps’ projects, ‘humanitarian missions to the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics’ take top priority, having received ‘federal and regional grant support’.   . 
An interesting statement reads: “Since April 2022, the autonomous non-profit organisation ‘Humanitarian Volunteer Corps’ has been organising a humanitarian mission to the Donetsk People’s Republic with the participation of the organisation’s volunteers. 
To date, 100 people have taken part in the mission…. To date, volunteers from the humanitarian mission are providing assistance in the following settlements in the LPR and DPR: Mariupol, Donetsk, Makiivka, Severodonetsk, Horlivka, Luhansk, Lysychansk and Rubizhne.” 
In other words, volunteers from the Humanitarian Volunteer Corps were carrying out state tasks in the occupied territory of Ukraine using state funds. It is highly likely that these activities were the subject of the agreement between the Russian Humanitarian Mission and the Humanitarian Volunteer Corps in 2021.