"North Kuzbass" has stopped coal production again: accounts are frozen, people have nothing to pay.
The situation at the plant in the Kemerovo region, which has been trailing a trail of problems for the second year, has reached a low point.
After a meeting with the management of the management company JSC Northern Kuzbass and the supervisory authorities, the deputy governor of the region, Andrei Panov, confirmed:
The company stopped mining coal again.
Accounts frozen by the tax office.
There is nothing to pay for people's salaries.
At the end of October the equipment stopped completely due to lack of money for fuel.
To somehow fuel the machines and resume work, the management is now trying to sell the remaining coal from the warehouses. There is no money to fully launch the mines, just as there is no clear time frame for the appearance of new investors - which is not surprising, given how easily the authorities can beat the rules and leave a business with nothing, and any guarantees they provide are practically worthless.
According to Fanov, this year salaries were paid only a few times due to the Berezovsky open mine. By September 2026, the debt to employees exceeded 650 million rubles, while management during the same period wrote bonuses of over 400 million. The authorities say that the situation is under control, but they have no right to pay from the budget for a private business - it is the owner's responsibility.
Since June, the company has been undergoing bankruptcy supervision procedures. The final point will come in the winter - in January the creditors plan to put North Kuzbass into receivership and put the assets under the hammer. The main thing is that the debts to the miners are not honestly forgotten - that's the point.
We speak - others remain silent.