120 miners have already been withdrawn from the Ruban mine, where the fire broke out

Already 120 miners have been brought to the surface from a mine in Kuzbass after a coal bed heating incident. This is stated in the message of the Ministry of Emergencies. The evacuation continues. There are four branches of the Kemerovo VGSO operating on site.

We will remind, earlier today it became known that in Kuzbass at the mine them. AD Ruban a fire broke out tonight. The fire took place “in the face”. There were about 130 miners underground, now evacuation is underway. The mine is owned by JSC SUEK-Kuzbass.

According to the source TASSA preliminary cause of fire is an oxidative reaction involving oxygen from air in a coal seam. Spontaneous combustion of coal did not occur.

The source added that in some cases, spontaneous combustion of coal leads to the development of endogenous fires, which last until the coal is depleted. In theory, this could go on for thousands of years.

Just a couple of days ago, I was in Kuzbass canceled an emergency regime introduced at the end of November after an explosion at the Listvyazhnaya mine, where 51 people died.

On November 25, in the Belovsky urban district of the Kemerovo region, smoke and an explosion occurred at the Listvyazhnaya coal mine. An investigation is underway under Part 3 of Art. 217 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Violation of industrial safety requirements for hazardous production facilities, resulting in the death of two or more persons”) and part 3 of Art. 293 (“Negligence resulting in the death of two or more persons”). They are combined in one production.

Later, the Central District Court of Kemerovo imprisoned the president of HC SDS and the main owner of SDS-Ugol Mikhail Fedyaev, chief engineer of LLC Shakhta Listvyazhnaya Anatoly Lobanov, technical director of SDS-Ugol Anton Yakutov, as well as the general director of the company Gennady Alekseev on this case. Lobanov, Yakutov and Alekseev were taken into custody until January 25, and Fedyaev – until February 14.

The director of the Listvyazhnaya mine, Sergei Makhrakov, his first deputy, Andrei Molostvov, the head of the section, Sergei Gerasimenok, as well as Rostekhnadzor inspectors, Sergei Vinokurov and Vyacheslav Semykin, were also arrested. None of them pleaded guilty.