SUEK-Krasnoyarsk presented experience in increasing efficiency at the federal level.
In Krasnoyarsk, at the site of the National Center “Russia”, a Forum on increasing labor productivity was held under the chairmanship of Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak, with the participation of the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Reshetnikov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Mikhail Yurin, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Evgeny Grabchak, Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Mikhail Kotyukov and Governor of the Altai Territory Viktor Tomenko, as well as heads of the largest Russian industrial companies. The key topic is how to make production more efficient without losing quality and people, and what tools give real results.
Opening the forum, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak noted: “Given the significance of the Forum’s theme, labor productivity should become a national idea both in sectors of the economy and in the social sphere. This issue is the focus of special attention of the President of Russia, the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, and such events give us additional impetus to understand how significant this topic is for the country: it is an issue of economic growth, competitiveness, an issue of development. Over the past five years, labor productivity in Russia has grown by an average of 1.4% per year, and in 2024 – by 4.6%. Our task is to maintain this momentum. It is symbolic that the forum is taking place in Krasnoyarsk: the region ranks first in the Siberian Federal District in terms of labor productivity, 73% of enterprises are already involved in efficiency improvement projects. The region is the key link between federal goals and specific results at enterprises.”
Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Mikhail Kotyukov emphasized: “The economy of the Krasnoyarsk Territory consists of almost half of industry, and more than 60% of the budget is the social sphere. At the first stage of the national project “Labor Productivity”, 150 large enterprises were involved. 60% of participants exceeded the five percent productivity growth target. But 5% is negligible, but this is only the first taste. Now we must move on. Our regional competence center is among the top five in the country. 300 people were trained as instructors, 3,500 as those directly involved in production. Our goal is by 2030 not just to touch on the topic of productivity, but to gain real experience and results. The main principle: not fuss, but slow, conscious movement, but without interruption.”
A striking example of systematic work to increase labor productivity is JSC SUEK-Krasnoyarsk. The company, which accounts for every tenth ton of Russian coal, has increased production by one and a half times over the past five years, extracting almost 38 million tons of brown coal in 2025. At the same time, labor productivity increased by 53%. At the end of last year, the production figure was 1,176 tons per person per month – this is two times higher than the average Russian level of labor productivity in open-pit coal mining.
As explained by the General Director of JSC SUEK-Krasnoyarsk Evgeny Yevtushenko, this result became possible thanks to the model built into the management system, where responsibility for efficiency is assigned to each level of management. “Productivity for us is not an internal metric. This is a factor in the reliability of the country’s energy supply and the development of territories. We have built a single digital control loop: dispatch, online monitoring, multifunctional security system. 35 units of mining transport equipment were modernized, including unique rotary systems. And since 2012, our mechanical repair plants have been implementing an import substitution program – today these are engineering centers with their own design bureaus, which ensure our engineering independence. At the same time, industrial safety is an absolute priority for us. We are introducing modern technologies that bring results: the absence of fatal accidents, a decrease in industrial injury rates and an increase in safety culture in general,” said Evgeniy Mikhailovich.
Special attention at the forum was paid to personnel policy. SUEK-Krasnoyarsk employs about 5,500 people – residents of the single-industry towns of Borodino, Nazarovo and Sharypovo. The Company has built a continuous system of personnel training – from school “Professional Classes” and “Professional Teams” to targeted training in secondary schools and universities. In 2025, 125 students completed practical training at coal mining enterprises, and 45 young specialists were hired. “The best indicator of the social atmosphere and working conditions is our labor dynasties. The total work experience of some families reaches almost 500 years. This is a level of trust that cannot be created administratively – it is formed only through stability and long-term responsibility,” added the head of SUEK-Krasnoyarsk.
By 2030, the Company plans to maintain its leadership position by scaling digital solutions, further modernizing mining machinery and equipment, producing new products for deep processing of brown coal and creating a digital twin of the Borodino open-pit mine – a model of the full production cycle from mining to shipment of coal to consumers.
“The topic of productivity should become an employer’s competitiveness package,” commented the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Mikhail Kotyukov. — Often conversations about productivity cause fear: “Now they will optimize.” We must place emphasis correctly. And here the example of SUEK-Krasnoyarsk is extremely important. What the Company is doing today covers about 200 thousand people living in the single-industry towns of Borodino, Nazarovo and Sharypovo. Hence, the correct signal that productivity is not reduction, but development, should be sent to all other enterprises in our territories.”
This is exactly how SUEK-Krasnoyarsk works: with respect for people, effective use of modern technologies, import substitution and real productivity growth.
