OREANDA-NEWS. April 06, 2010. The team of production section No1 at Kotinskaya Mine belonging to OAO SUEK-Kuzbass (the Director of the Mine is Mikhail Lupiy, the Section Manager is Sergey Musokhranov) has set a new record for Russia in the volume of monthly production. According to the results of March 2010, the team of Vladimir Ivanovich Melnik mined 707.190 tonnes of coal from longwall No 52-07 equipped with a DWT unit and a tunneling machine SL-500, with the overall mine production amounting to 730.630 tonnes. In total, V.Melnik's team has produced about 1.3 million tonnes of coal during three months of 2010.

In 2008 Vladimir Melnik's team set a national record of monthly yield having mined 635,000 tonnes of coal while the total yield of the mine amounted to 665,000 tonnes. The same team holds the national record of annual yield amounting to 4.7 million tonnes.

"The team has set a Russian record of coal production in difficult geological and mining conditions - in high water," said the director of the mine, Mikhail Lupiy. "The achieved performance resulted from well coordinated work of professionals, high commitment of miners, continuous introduction and use of high-performance technologies."