Kolmar Mining Company Has a Massive Project Underway; President Putin Has Decided to Check In
An average salary here exceeds 80,000 rubles (~$1,400). It takes 10 months to build a new plant. Today, Vladimir Putin discussed the work of the Kolmar Coal Mining Company. In the Kremlin, the President met with its CEO Sergei Tsivilev, who told about the company's latest achievements related not only to coal but also to large-scale social projects.
Dmitry Kaistro will tell more.
This huge project is unprecedented. Its scale and mission can't be compared to anything. When the Inaglinskaya-2 mine achieves its total capacity, it'll allow Russia to become the top world exporter of the premium metallurgic coal. The Inaglinskaya-2 mine is one of the most promising projects of the Kolmar Coal Mining Company. In hardly accessible places with temperatures dropping below -50° C (-58 F), the holding created a powerful coal mining cluster in just a few years. It's already shown an incredible development pace.
President Putin invited the company's CEO, Sergei Tsivilev, to discuss the results of work and prospects.
President Putin: "You started from rather modest positions and have made significant progress over a short period. I know the company also puts great emphasis on its social responsibility programs".
Sergei Tsivilev: "We have indeed developed two mining and processing facilities over a very short term, thanks to the huge efforts of our staff. Construction of a terminal in the Khabarovsk Territory is going very fast. We're developing a maintenance and production base that will be a foundation for the development of not only southern Yakutia but, to a large extent, of Russia’s Far East as well. Our first priority is the team, because people have to work in difficult conditions: in the last two months, the temperature often dropped to minus fifty and below; the equipment broke down, but people continued working and made all the deadlines. For example, we build a plant in 10 months. In China, similar plants take at least 12 months. We're perfectly aware that our greatest asset is the people. Whatever we do, whatever new technologies or equipment we have, they are a dead weight without human capital. That's why human capital comes first".
Thanks to the energy and talent of hundreds of workers and mining engineers, the Denisovskaya plant was completed, which allowed to start building the new Inaglinskaya processing facility. Now, half of the coal mined by Kolmar is transported to the Kuznetsk Basin processing facilities producing coke, the other half goes to the Far East. A transshipment complex in the Khabarovsk Territory's Vanino port is almost completed. That’s where coal is sent to Japan and China from. In the future, the holding is planning to export up to 80% of its production and expand the trade area to India, Vietnam, and South Korea.
Growing production will allow creating 4,000 jobs. Sergei Tsivilev told the Head of State that, beside successful enterprises in Southern Yakutia, Kolmar is creating modern social infrastructure.
Sergei Tsivilev: "When modern jobs are created, when social services are good for living here, young people stay, and this is our main task: make this city become the city of the youth".
New buildings and dormitories, sports complexes and hospitals are being built in Neryungri. A new airport terminal is planned to be built.
Sergei Tsivilev: We've built an ice arena and are building a lot of housing. We support sports: the local ice hockey team, chess, and football. We also support the Solovushka music company, which gives excellent performances, even at international forums.
President Putin: How many employees do you have?
- Today there are 3,000 people. By 2021, 7,000 people will work in southern Yakutia, and another 1,000 at the port – a total of 8,000 people will be employed at the company.
- What is the average salary?
- For today, it is 83,000 rubles.
- 83,000 rubles? Good.
The President emphasized the effective development of the social programs run by the Kolmar mining company. It does everything it can to make people want to come and stay to live in the Far East.
Dmitry Kaistro, Marina Samsonova, Anna Medvedeva, Viktor Vinogradov, Andrei Baraukhin, Vesti.