Oleg Kukushkin team won 1 million tonnes of coal at A. D. Ruban Colliery since the year start

Oleg Kukushkin team mines longwall No. 804 at Polysayevsky seam 2 offering a 4.9 m minable thickness. The coalface is equipped with 129 upgraded mechanized supports DBT 2250/5500 (Germany). The coalface machinery also includes a high-performance ELECTRA-3000 shearer, a PF-4/1032 longwall conveyor, an ST PF-4/1132 handler, an SК 11/11 impact roll crusher. All the deployed machinery was manufactured by Deutsche Bergbau Technik (DBT).

When congratulating the work team with their new labour victory, Yevgeny Yutyayev, CEO, SUEK-Kuzbass, primarily focused on the steady and lasting operation of the colliery, their ability to keep up high workload at coalfaces.    That is regarded as the miners' genuine prowess signature.

By way of reminder, the team led by Oleg Kukushkin have five times beaten the Colliery's records in monthly coal production over the past two years.  Their best result is 530K tonnes. Overall, in 2013 the well-coordinated team of coalface miners extracted 2.9m tonnes of coa