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Main mineral deposits on the territory of the Russian Federation
Pechora coal basin
Located within the Republic of Komi and the Nenets Autonomous District, the Arkhangelsk Region. The area is about 90 thousand km2. The first information about the presence of coal in the basin dates back to 1828. In 1919, the hunter V.Y. Popov filed a statement on finding coal in the Vorkuta river basin. The geological exploration work led by A.A. Chernov marked the discovery of the Pechora coal basin in 1924; commercial coal mining started in 1934. The overall geological reserves and resources amount to 265 billion tons (1986), of which explored ones make 23.9 billion tons (commercial - 13.7, non-commercial - 10.2 billion tons). In the 1970s, geological surveys extended the territory of the Pechora coal basin to the borders of the Timan-Ural province (the Bolshaya Pechora).
