Kobzev was engaged in the resolution of a number of major emergencies, particularly in the consequences of the 2011 Garbuzovo Antonov An-148 crash in Belgorod Oblast, he participated in the dispatch of a convoy with humanitarian aid to the territory of South Ossetia during the Russian-Georgian War, took part in extinguishing natural fires in the Voronezh Oblast in 2018, led the operation to receive refugees from Ukraine in the Voronezh region in 2014, and dealt with the consequences of the Saratov Airlines Flight 703 crash in Moscow Oblast in 2018.