
The Nazarovsky coal mine, which is part of JSC SUEK-Krasnoyarsk, has achieved significant production indicators in the year of its 75th anniversary.
Over three quarters of a century, miners have extracted about 500 million tons of coal, and the volume of overburden displaced into landfills has reached 1 billion cubic meters. These figures clearly demonstrate the scale of work of one of the oldest coal mining enterprises in the Kansk-Achinsk basin, which was commissioned at the end of 1951.
Viktor Gubanov, Head of the branch of JSC SUEK-Krasnoyarsk "Nazarovsky Section": "For the Nazarovsky section, achieving such volumes is, first of all, a living story in which people, their destinies and labor dynasties are behind every figure. This is the path that the company has traveled from its foundation to the present day. It is especially valuable that the anniversary year coincided with such an achievement: from now on, the 75th anniversary of the mine and 1 billion cubic meters of overburden are inextricably linked. I am sincerely grateful to everyone who, through their hard work, wrote this page into our common chronicle!"
Stripping operations at the Nazarovsky section have historically occupied a central place, four types of stripping are used here at once: transport-dump, non-transport, railway and automobile. The figure of a billion cubic meters of displaced rock is made up of the work of several generations of miners and a wide variety of mechanisms. Among them is the only SRs(K)-4000 rotary stripping complex in Russia. Its total weight is comparable to the weight of the Eiffel Tower and is 9,800 tons, the height at the highest point reaches 70 meters, higher than a twenty–story building, and the length of all the components of the complex is approaching half a kilometer. This giant is the main tool for preparing coal reserves for mining: the complex performs about 60% of the total overburden volume, processing thousands of cubic meters of rock every hour.
The Nazarovsky section is a city–forming enterprise that is closely connected with the life of the city of Nazarovo. The main consumer of coal produced here is Nazarovskaya GRES, which receives more than 95% of the fuel and transmits the generated electricity to the unified energy system of Russia.