Dear Friend and Colleagues,

On behalf of the Academy of Mining Sciences, the Editorial Board of Russian Mining Industry Journal and on my own behalf, I wish to congratulate you on our professional holiday, the Miner's Day.

This year the miners are celebrating two important events - the Tercentennial Anniversary of starting coal mining in Russia and the 75th Anniversary of the Miner's Day.

In 1947 the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree on establishing an annual national holiday, the Miner's Day, which was first celebrated on August 29, 1948.

The holiday underlined the special contribution of the coal industry workers to the victory in the Great Patriotic War and to the heroic recovery of the mines in Donbass and the Moscow coal basin.

Today, with the economic sanctions imposed on our country, its successful social and economic development, trouble-free operation of the energy facilities, agricultural businesses and social institutions depend on the development pace of the mining industry. read more...