Pervomayskaya Coal Mine

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Pervomayskaya Coal Mine (Первомайская шахта) is an operating coal mine in Razvedchik, Kemerovsky, Kemerovo, Russia.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Pervomayskaya Coal Mine	Razvedchik, Kemerovsky, Kemerovo, Russia	55.721116, 86.171951 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the coal mine:

Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	1975	–

Table 3: Operation details

Note: The asterisk (*) signifies that the value is a GEM estimated figure.

Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
1.8	0.16	2025	Underground	Longwall	–	448.0*	321.0*

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
–	–	–	Biruylinsk	Bituminous	Met	Other Industrial

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Severny Kuzbass Coal Company JSC	Severny Kuzbass Coal Company JSC [100.0%]	Russia

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

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
ROM	–	0.45	0.46	0.49	0.26	0.22	0.24	0.38	0.16

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

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Background

Pervomayskaya coal mine (шахта Первомайская) is an underground mine in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.

(It is not to be confused with Pervomaisky coal mine, a surface mine also in Kemerovo Oblast.) Pervomayskaya coal mine is owned and operated by a branch of Severny Kuzbass Coal Company JSC, a subsidiary of TalTEK. TalTEK acquired Severny Kuzbass in 2019. In April 2023 media sources announced that Taltek is selling Severny Kuzbass to a private entrepreneur Stanislav Lupiy. However no official deal documents have been prepared at the time. The change of ownership then took place.

The mine's initial capacity was 1.8 million tonnes per year.

In 2020, the mine has celebrated its 45th year of operations, producing almost 47 million tonnes of coal in total.

In 2022, the mine produced 222,000 tonnes of coal; in 2023, production grew slightly to 244,000; in 2024, coal production at the mine reached 383,000 tonnes. Over the first eight months of 2025, coal production at Pervomayskaya mine fell by 2.7 times - from 419,000 tonnes to 157,300 tonnes - due to deteriorating mining and geological conditions.

Extracted coal is delivered to the washing plant 'Severnaya'. The enriched coal is then sold on to metallurgical and coke-chemical facilities in Russia.

Safety and Regulatory Violations

The Pervomayskaya coal mine was repeatedly cited by Russia’s Federal Service for Environmental, Technological, and Nuclear Supervision (Rostechnadzor) for industrial safety violations. In 2025, the Siberian Directorate of Rostechnadzor imposed multiple temporary suspensions of equipment and operations at the mine due to non-compliance with industrial safety requirements, including the operation of conveyor and transport equipment in violation of safety standards. According to the regulator, the identified violations posed risks of accidents involving dust and methane explosions.

Financial Difficulties and Wage Arrears

In 2025, JSC Severny Kuzbass Coal Company, which operated the Berezovskaya and Pervomayskaya coal mines, experienced significant financial difficulties that resulted in repeated delays in wage payments to employees. By the end of September 2025, wage arrears affected a workforce of more than 2,000 employees, while the company repaid about 85 percent of its August wage obligations by early October. Regional authorities stated that the remaining wage arrears were expected to be settled by the end of November 2025, with the process placed under prosecutorial supervision. The company attributed its financial distress to deteriorating mining and geological conditions that led to a sharp decline in coal output, with production at the Pervomayskaya mine falling by nearly threefold and output at the Berezovskaya mine declining by more than 25 percent over the first eight months of 2025. The company had been subject to bankruptcy proceedings since October 2024, although formal bankruptcy procedures had not been initiated as of late 2025, and it had previously received state support measures, including debt restructuring and deferrals of tax and insurance payments.

Coal Mine Boundaries and Methane Sources

Global Energy Monitor researchers have identified coal mine boundary/boundaries and potential sources of coal mine methane (CMM) for this mine. These research results can be used to drive CMM attribution and mitigation efforts, particularly when combined with remotely sensed methane plume locations and mine ownership data. Explore the results with the embedded map at the top of this page by clicking on the mine boundary polygon or the CMM placemarkers to reveal more details. A detailed description of this research can be found in Coal Mine Boundaries and Methane Sources. This data is also available as a downloadable companion dataset to the Global Coal Mine Tracker and the Global Methane Emitters Tracker.

Table SMP1: Coal mine boundaries and methane sources data

ID	Mine feature category	Mine feature subcategory	Description	Coordinates precision	Data source date
M0833.B1	mine boundary	underground	Pervomayskaya mine boundary	reported	2025-12-08 00:00:00
M0833.P1	ventilation system	vent	Possible ventilation system	extracted	2024-05-22 00:00:00
M0833.P2	ventilation system	shaft	Possible ventilation shaft	extracted	2024-05-22 00:00:00
M0833.P4	ventilation system	vent	Possible ventilation system	extracted	2024-05-22 00:00:00
M0833.P5	other	mine entrance or exit	Possible mine entrance or exit	extracted	2025-07-25 00:00:00

Table SMP2: Coal mine boundaries and methane sources data (continued)

Coal mine boundaries and methane sources were last researched for this mine on Dec 12, 2025

ID	Notes
M0833.B1	This mine operates under subsoil land-use license КЕМ 14883 ТЭ, as identified through the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (Единый государственный реестр юридических лиц, ЕГРЮЛ), using the company’s INN (Taxpayer Identification Number, ИНН), page 9,https://www.archive.org/details/20251208_20251208_1447. The license was issued on March 16, 2010, and is valid until December 31, 2025. The boundary was extracted from the NedraExpert portal at https://web.archive.org/web/20251208145734/https://www.nedraexpert.ru/license/137678?ysclid=mix986clhr848741130.The approximate area of the resulting boundary is 33 square km.
M0833.P1	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M0833.P2	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M0833.P4	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M0833.P5	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.It is also possible that this object represents a ventilation shaft.

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