Details of the fire at the Ruban mine in Kuzbass have become known

The fire broke out at a non-working mine in the Kemerovo region. The Ruban working mine located nearby is being evacuated. A source told Izvestia on Sunday, December 19.

According to him, the oxygen supply has been suspended in a non-working mine to prevent new fires.

The press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region told reporters that 120 people were brought to the surface from the Ruban mine. The department added that at the time of the incident there were 128 miners in the mine.

Mine rescuers are working at the scene, no information has been received about the victims, the ministry said.

A fire at a mine in Kuzbass became known earlier that day. It was noted that an abandoned adit was on fire, there was no threat to the lives of the miners.

On the morning of November 25, an accident occurred at the Listvyazhnaya mine in Kuzbass. As a result of the incident, 51 people died, 58 were hospitalized. In total, there were 285 people in the mine.

On the fact of the incident, a criminal case was initiated under Part 2 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 a person by negligence”), as well as a criminal case on the fact of negligence of employees of the Rostekhnadzor department.

On December 16, investigators managed to establish the shadow owner of the mine and the SDS-Ugol holding, who turned out to be a former State Duma deputy Vladimir Gridin. One of the arrested managers gave testimony about the real owner of the business, but the investigators did not have time to interrogate Gridin, since the other day he unexpectedly flew to Monaco. It is noted that Gridin ran a business, being a deputy of the State Duma of the fifth and sixth convocations, holding the post of deputy chairman of the transport committee.