Russian Mining Industry since 1994
ISSN 1609-9192 (print)
ISSN 2587-9138 (online)
Dear Colleagues,
I wish to congratulate you on our professional holiday, the Day of Metallurgist.
I am a professional coal miner, but I have a good reason to call you my colleagues, because I evolved as an engineer and a manager in Novokuznetsk, the city of metallurgists which was awarded with the title of "City of Labour Valour and Labour Glory". Our production was used to feed the blast furnaces of the Kuznetsk, Magnitogorsk, West-Siberian metallurgical complexes.
Russia is a relatively young mining and metallurgical country. Despite the tremendous natural resources, regular ore mining and smelting that followed can be said have originated during the reign of Peter the Great, when in 1700 he founded the Board of Mining later transformed read more...
