In The Kemerovo Region Of Russian Federation, A Mine With Almost 1,000 Employees Has Halted Operations
11- 30.06.2025, 20:12
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For lack of money.
One of the major mines in the Kemerovo region, Spiridonovskaya, which employed 900 employees, has stopped work, Interfax reported citing the region's Ministry of Coal Industry. The company specified that the debts on wages, vacation and settlement payments amounted to about 90 million rubles, and mining was stopped back in early June due to lack of funding.
In late May, the mine's management decided to lay off 760 employees amid a "shortage of investment funds," a Spiridonovskaya representative said. By the end of June, about 120 people had been laid off. About 130 people are now involved in the life support of the mine, which has produced about 214 thousand tons of coal since the beginning of the year.
Last Friday, the first deputy governor and head of the government of Kuzbass Andrei Panov reported in his Telegram channel that the employees of "Spiridonovskaya" have not received their salaries for more than a month. Prior to that, the official reported that out of 151 coal mining companies in the region, 20 are on the verge of bankruptcy.
"Today, in the conditions of the crisis, coal miners are forced to literally survive, using all possible resources and reducing costs, increasing productivity. In some cases, we have to put workers on idle time or lay them off," he lamented.
Renewed in 2023, Spiridonovskaya reported 1.5 billion rubles in revenue and a net loss of 422 million rubles under RAS the year before last. In 2024, the loss quadrupled and reached 1.8 billion rubles (revenue increased to 2.2 billion rubles).
In 2024 alone, eight mines in Kuzbass stopped operating, almost five hundred employees did not receive their salaries for several months, reported Kemerovo governor Ilya Seredyuk in February 2025. At a number of enterprises the staff was reduced. For example, about 250 people were laid off at the Inskaya mine, Oleg Tokarev, Minister of Coal Industry of the region, said in January.
The coal industry of Kuzbass, according to official data, provides almost 60% of the all-Russian production of hard coal, about 80% of coking coal and 100% of especially valuable grades. The industry employs more than 110 thousand people, or more than 70% of the total number of workers in the coal industry in Russia.