Oktyabrskaya Coal Mine

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Oktyabrskaya Coal Mine (шахта Октябрьская (ШУ Шахта Заречная, Шахта Полысаевская-2)) is an operating coal mine in Polysayevo, Polysayevo Urban, Kemerovo, Russia.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Oktyabrskaya Coal Mine	Polysayevo, Polysayevo Urban, Kemerovo, Russia	54.57231, 86.251688 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	1951	–

Table 3: Operation details

Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
–	–	2023	Underground	Longwall	–	390	–

Table 4: Coal resources and destination

Total Reserves (Mt)	Year of Total Reserves Recorded	Total Resources (Mt)	Coalfield	Coal Type	Coal Grade	Primary Consumer/ Destination
43.5	–	161.5	–	Bituminous	Thermal	Coal Plant

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Coal Company Sila Sibiri JSC [100.0%]	Coal Company Sila Sibiri JSC	Russia

Table 6: Historical production (unit: million tonnes per annum)

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Saleable	1.4	–	–	–	–	2.5	2.1	–	–

Note: The above sections were automatically generated and are based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker August 2026 release.

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Background

Oktyabrskaya Coal Mine (шахта Октябрьская) is an underground mine in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.

The Oktyabrskaya coal mine section used to be part of Zarechnaya Coal Company, which went bankrupt in 2017. Oktyabrskaya (often referred to as Oktyabrsky section) together with the Zarechnaya coal mine were sold in July 2021 to the Coal Company Sila Sibiri (Power of Siberia). The Oktyabrskaya coal mine is a section of Zarechnaya coal mine. These are the only coal mines of Sila Sibiri.

Historically, most of the coal from this mine supplied Russian thermal power plants.

It appeared that the mine was not operating in the first half of 2022 as reported production stood at 0 in an industry report. The mine was therefore considered Mothballed as of October 2022.

However reports from 2023 indicated that the mine was operating. According to the company's representative, the longwall of Oktyabrskaya coal mine with reserves of 1.31 million tonnes of coal of "G" and "DG" energy grades was commissioned in spring 2023, and mining was carried out only from this longwall. It was planned to produce about 350 thousand tonnes of coal from the longwall face every month. Operations were temporarily suspended at the mine in April 2023, but were shortly resumed.

Total coal production of Sila Sibiri was reported at 2.5 million tonnes in 2022. In 2023, the company's production declined to 2.1 million tonnes. In 1H 2024, the company's coal production increased by 25% to 1.8 million tonnes.

Accidents

In February 2017, a fatal accident occurred at the Oktyabrsky section of Zarechnaya mine: during haulage operations in an inclined conveyor shaft, a worker fell from a platform not equipped for passenger transport and sustained fatal injuries.

Methane Plumes Detected Nearby

Global Energy Monitor researchers analyze satellite-detected methane plumes in order to determine whether they have been observed at or near the site of GEM energy assets. The satellite data provider creates imagery of individual methane plumes and estimates their emission rates at the time of observation. GEM has reviewed many of these plume detections against Google Earth imagery and GEM’s own energy infrastructure tracker data. The following table lists methane plumes which are associated with the energy asset or facility based on distance and manual review. (A full description of the analysis process is available in the Global Methane Emitters Tracker methodology wiki page.)

Table M1: Plume details

For additional details on this individual plume identification and others, see the Global Methane Emitters Tracker.

Observation date	Satellite data provider	Location of plume origin	Methane emissions rate	Additional plume information
2025-02-23T05:51:06+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250223t055106c00s4001-L	54.56525, 86.2725	809.5114 kg/hr	Kemerovskaja Administrative Region Methane Observation 2025-02-23, 3
2025-04-22T06:12:01+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250422t061201c00s4001-L	54.56526, 86.27261	426.571 kg/hr	Kemerovskaja Administrative Region Methane Observation 2025-04-22, 3
2025-06-01T06:04:47+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250601t060447c30s4001-L	54.5631, 86.26171	709.9734 kg/hr	Kemerovskaja Administrative Region Methane Observation 2025-06-01, 4
2025-06-01T06:04:47+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250601t060447c30s4001-U	54.56537, 86.27237	470.2926 kg/hr	Kemerovskaja Administrative Region Methane Observation 2025-06-01, 5

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