Red Partisan Coal Mine

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Red Partisan Coal Mine (Червоний партизан, Красный партизан) is a mothballed coal mine in Chervonopartyzansk, Voznesenivka, Sverdlovsk (Dovzhansk), Luhansk, Ukraine.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Red Partisan Coal Mine	Chervonopartyzansk, Voznesenivka, Sverdlovsk (Dovzhansk), Luhansk, Ukraine	48.061764, 39.8073332 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Mothballed	–	1958	–

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
0.6	–	–	Underground	–	–	494*	906.1717191797153*

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
122	–	–	–	Anthracite	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Republic Fuel Company Vostokugol State Enterprise [100.0%]	Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Luhansk People's Republic	Russia

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

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

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

The Red Partisan Coal Mine (Chervonyy partyzan in Ukrainian, or Krasnyy partizan in Russian) is an underground coal mine in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.

It used to be owned and operated by DTEK Sverdlovanthracite LLC, a subsidiary of DTEK Energy B.V, which is owned by Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov. It has a capacity of 750,000 tons per year, but has often mined more than 1 million tonnes annually. DTEK lost control of Sverdlovanthracite LLC in 2017. The mine eventually transitioned under the control of Republic Fuel Company Vostokugol State Enterprise, owned by the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of the unrecognized Luhansk People's Republic.

In September 2021, 9 miners died and 19 injured as a result of breakage of the cage rope.

In January 2022, the coal mine launched a new longwall. As of March 2023, the mine appeared to be operating.

In October 2023, a Ukrainian source reported that the process to mothball the mine has started due to large debts for electricity and not enough workers as miners are mobilized.

In March 2024, Ukrainian media source reported that equipment had been dismantled and removed from the mine to the territory of the Russian Federation. In June 2024, Russian source reported that several mines including the Red Partisan will be leased to a private investor Donskiye Ugli. It was not clear if the mine was operating.

In June 2024, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR) occupation authorities formally leased the Red Partisan mine to Russian company Donskiye Ugli, along with four other LNR mines.

By 2025, Donskiye Ugli had returned seven of its ten leased LNR mines to occupation authorities as unprofitable, retaining only the Red Partisan, Sukhodolska-Skhidna, and Dovzhanska-Kapitalna mines as the three most viable assets. The company recorded a net loss of 6.7 billion rubles (around $72.8 million) in 2024 — 117 times its loss in the previous year — and projected losses of 12.8 billion rubles (around $139.1 million) for 2025. In November 2025, Donskiye Ugli requested 40 billion rubles (around $400 million) from Russia's National Wealth Fund at a subsidised 3% rate, but the request was refused.

In February 2026, LNR authorities terminated the lease agreement with Donskiye Ugli for all remaining mines, including the Red Partisan. The return of the three mines was to be completed by 15 February 2026. Russia's Ministry of Energy attributed the termination to the lessee's "systematic failure to fulfil obligations". No evidence of active coal production at the Red Partisan mine has been identified in publicly available sources since the start of the mothballing process in late 2023.

As of April 2026, no evidence of active coal production at the Red Partisan mine was identified. The mine is classified as mothballed.

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