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6 March 2023

Four teams of excavators from the Vinogradovsky open-pit mine won the “Production Competition” of coal industry workers

At the end of 2022, four teams of excavators from the Vinogradovsky open-pit mine of the Kuzbass Fuel Company showed the highest labor productivity and became winners of the interregional “Production Competition” of coal industry workers.

“Production competition” at the enterprises of the Russian Coal company has been held annually since 2018. Participants in the competition in 2022 were employees of the coal mining enterprises of Russian Coal and Kuzbass Fuel Company in the Amur Region, Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Republic of Khakassia and Kuzbass. These are 75 excavator teams representing 6 coal mines.



In 2022, excavator teams from the Vinogradovsky open-pit mine of the Kuzbass Fuel Company were included in the “Russian Coal Production Competition” for the first time. And at the end of the year, they became the main winners of the federal competition for coal industry workers, winning in 4 out of 7 subgroups.


In the subgroup “Excavators with a bucket capacity of 25 m3” of the “Electric Mining Crawler Excavators” group, the best result was shown by the R&N-2300 brigade № 2384 under the leadership of foreman Evgeniy Ermolaevich Fedorov:


Serdyuk Dmitry Evgenievich
Semerenko Nikolay Sergeevich
Kucherenko Evgeniy Anatolievich
Makarov Andrey Anatolievich
Pomortsev Oleg Vladimirovich
Zavyalov Oleg Nikolaevich
Svistunov Alexey Viktorovich
Ustyantsev Andrey Vladimirovich



In the subgroup “Excavators with a bucket capacity of up to 15 m3” of the “Walking Excavators” group, the best result was shown by brigade ESh 10/70 № 495 under the leadership of foreman Eduard Maratovich Muravlev:


Frolov Alexander Alexandrovich
Romanov Sergey Anatolievich
Pantyukhov Dmitry Valerievich
Yakushin Nikolay Nikolaevich
Strykov Evgeniy Alexandrovich
Shabalov Dmitry Alexandrovich
Kurgankov Vladimir Sergeevich
Chernyakov Nikita Yurievich



In the subgroup “Excavators with a bucket capacity from 5 to 15 m3 inclusive” of the “Hydraulic Crawler Excavators” group, the best result was shown by the Komatsu RS 1250 SP team № 17 under the leadership of foreman Mikhail Anatolyevich Lobintsev:
Nevolin Igor Vladimirovich
Makashov Vladimir Vladimirovich
Trinev Konstantin Alexandrovich



In the subgroup “Excavators with a bucket capacity from 3 to 5 m3 inclusive” of the “Hydraulic Crawler Excavators” group, the best result was shown by the Komatsu PC 800 № 1 team under the leadership of foreman Pavel Vasilyevich Zotev:
Belov Alexander Sergeevich
Krekov Vasily Alexandrovich
Surkov Maxim Alexandrovich




Keys to new LADA NIVA cars were received by:
Evgeniy Anatolyevich Kucherenko, driver of the electric mining crawler excavator R&N 2300 № 2384
Frolov Alexander Aleksandrovich, driver of the walking excavator ESH 10/70 № 495. By the way, in 2022 he also became the winner of the interregional professional skills competition “Best in Profession” of the group of companies “Russian Coal” and Kuzbass Fuel Company
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Trinev, driver of the Komatsu RS 1250 SP hydraulic excavator № 17
Zotev Pavel Vasilievich, foreman and operator of the hydraulic excavator Komatsu RS 800 № 1