";s:4:"text";s:7239:" Anna Krikun is one of the oldest residents living around Vorkuta, a coal-mining Russian city above the Arctic Circle. The blast occurred during efforts to rescue workers trapped underground after the first blast at the mine … President Vladimir Putin ordered a government commission to be set up to look into the incident at the mine operated by Vorkutaugol, a subsidiary of Severstal.
One of the largest coal mine disasters in Russia occurred at Vorkuta coal mine on 28 February 2016, when leaking methane gas ignited and killed 32 people, including 26 trapped miners who had been stranded by a similar explosion 3 days prior that had killed four miners. — Catherine A. Fitzpatrick All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. A new explosion has rocked a coalmine in Vorkuta, northern Russia, killing five rescuers and one miner. Denis Paikin, Vorkutaugol’s technical director, concurred with Puchkov’s assessment. A Severstal spokeswoman confirmed to Reuters that six people had died in Sunday’s blast and that five of them were rescue workers. She has kept the documents clearing her name. The miners were trapped on Thursday after a sudden leak of methane gas caused two blasts that led parts of the Severnaya mine in Vorkuta to collapse.
She says she had "nowhere to go" since her family's home in her native city of Sevastopol, in Crimea, was destroyed during the war. Krikun survived dictator Josef Stalin’s Great Terror, World War II, the gulag, and more than 18 years in Vorkuta's coal mines. But Krikun chose to stay on after her release. The mine gallery at the height of 23 meters failed on August 15. One week on from the Vorkuta mine disaster, Russian-American cellist Borislav Strulev performed to an audience 340 metres (1115 feet) down a mine shaft in Gubkin in … On 25 February 1964 the Soviet domestic radio service broadcast the text of a telegram sent by the CPSU Central Committee and USSR Council of Ministers to the town of Vorkuta expressing condolences on the occasion of a mine disaster caused by a methane gas explosion which apparently claimed the lives of an unspecified number of people. After Nazi forces captured her home city of Oboyan, in the Kursk region in western Russia, Krikun first repaired roads and then worked as an interpreter. Reporting by Alexander Winning and Polina Devitt; Editing by David Goodman. Head department ministry Russian Federation on affairs Grazhdansky defenses, to emergency situations and natural disaster response on Komi Republic also published the video from a scene. Russia has suffered hundreds of mining disasters in the last 15 years; the worst in recent history occurred in Kemero in 2007 where 110 people were killed. The episode is the latest in a long line of accidents in Russia’s coal mining industry and is likely to raise fresh questions about how strictly safety rules are being followed. Many people have left the Vorkuta area. According to the chief of the center of managements in crisis situations of a regional central board of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Pavel Gettikh, transition to the moment of a collapse was taken out of service, repair work there was carried out. Russian mine disaster death toll hits 36 after explosion during failed rescue effort By Tim Hume , Tina Burnside and Radina Gigova, CNN Updated 1327 GMT (2127 HKT) February 28, 2016 The total death toll from the accident now stands at 36 people. As a result of incident four persons were lost. Krikun was later rehabilitated. “The circumstances in the affected part of the mine did not allow anyone to survive,” Russia’s Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov said in televised comments after visiting the mine. The head of the Komi republic, where the Vorkuta mine is located, has declared a three-day mourning period in the republic starting from Sunday. Krikun said she did nothing wrong. As a result of incident four persons were lost. Anna Krikun spent a decade in a Soviet labor camp in Vorkuta, the city in the Russian Arctic where 36 workers died in coal-mine disaster last month. Multiple mine disasters have occurred in Vorkuta mines; 5 people died in 2002 in Severnaya due to a methane explosion, and another 19 in 2013. The official cause of his death one month after his arrest was heart failure – which was widely understood at the time to mean execution by firing squad. The Ulyanovskaya disaster claimed the lives of miners in Russia’s worst mining accident since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Anna Krikun spent a decade in a Soviet labor camp in Vorkuta, the city in the Russian Arctic where 36 workers died in coal-mine disaster last month. She worked 15 more years at one of Vorkuta's coal mines before retiring. Krikun now lives in a small flat in this apartment building in Vorgashor, a settlement in the outskirts of Vorkuta. Criminal case after a collapse on mine to Komi Republic] is brough business newspaper "Vzglyad" 8/15/2020 State of emergency on mine in Vorkuta carried away lives of four people A frame grab taken from footage released on Feb. 25, 2016, by the Komi branch of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry shows mine rescuers at the Severnaya coal mine in Vorkuta… MOSCOW (Reuters) - The 26 miners who were trapped in a Russian coal mine above the Arctic circle have died and rescue operations have been halted after a third blast underground killed several rescue workers, emergency services said on Sunday.