OREANDA-NEWS. May 15, 2007. The Kuzbass authorities already have an arrangement with holding " Siberian business union " that SDS will take away to itself one of three remained ownerless mines " prokopevskuglja " - mine it. Dzerzhinskogo. Kuzbass governor Aman Tuleyev also hopes for that, as the mines which have remained now without the proprietor - "Ziminku" and "Koksovuju" - also will take " under a wing " SDS. In opinion of experts, SDS it is chosen by the new proprietor for problem mines as this company not Moscow, but Kuzbass, a d " cannot give up to the governor ", and means in mines to put it is necessary to avoid social explosion in "coal" city.

Let's remind, that Open Company " UK " Prokopevskugol " (together with Open Society " Altai-coke ") in April, 2006 have been sold by shareholders "Kuzbassrazrezuglja" to proprietors of Open Society " Novolipetskij metallurgical combine " (NLMK). By the mo nt of this transaction "prokopevskugol" was unprofitable. Basic proprietor NLMK Vladimir Lisin in March-April of this year has preferred to pay debts "prokopevskuglja" and to give its municipality of Prokopevsk (MUP " the Municipal government of life-su pport ") for $1, rather than and further to continue "to pull" unprofitable and technologically complex company.

As a result auxiliary enterprises " prokopevskuglja " (mine it. Voroshilov, mine " Ziminka ", "Tyrganskaja" and "Krasnogorskaja", three conce rating factories, machine-building enterprise NPO " podzemtransmash ", CHernogorskaja a motor depot) send to SDS under the arrangement of heads of holding with the Kuzbass governor. On communique SDS, debts of the got mines to local budgets make 306 milli rbl.