OREANDA-NEWS. June 27, 2012. Oleg Kukushin's team, area No.1 at Krasnoyarskaya mine operated by OJSC SUEK-Kuzbass have mined the millionth ton of coal from the beginning of the year. They became the fifth team - "millionaire" in the Company.

The main volume of coal of 828 ths tons the "Krasnoyartsy" had mined from face no. 808. It is the first face in the coal field of the coal bed Polysaevsky 2 of 4.7 meters in mining height. The face is equipped with 129 DBT 2250/5500 modernized powered support units, Germany. The working face assembly also includes ELECTRA-3000 high capacity cutter-loader, PF - 4/1032 face conveyor line, PF-4/1132 reloader, SK 11/11 impact gyratory breaker. All the equipment of the complex is made by Deutsche Bergbau Technik (DBT).

The collective started to work the face in March 2012, and managed within a short time to reach a diurnal production regime of ten thousand tons.

When congratulating the team led by Oleg Kukushkin with the success Sergei Alexandrovich Khoroshilov, the director of the mine, mentioned:

- These five months were not easy for the collective. The finalizing of face no. 1304 with complex mining and geological conditions; the advanced erection of equipment in face no. 808, the new complex development; the attaining of skills while developing a thick - up to five meters - bed. You in full measure showed your professionalism and coped worthily with all tasks.

By November 2012 the face crew of Krasnoyarskaya mine plan to work off face no. 808 and thus bring to grass the record third millionth tons of coal for the enterprise.