State Enterprise “Donetsk Institute for research, design work and engineering services in the refractory industry” (“DonNIGRI”) (Donetsk, Ukraine):

Vinichenko E. V., Chief Engineer, e-mail: vini4enko@donnigri.com.ua
Fedchuk V. S., Researcher

State Enterprise “Donetsk Institute for research, design work and engineering services in the refractory industry” (“DonNIGRI”) has been considering the problems of reclamation of mining disturbed lands for 50 years. The Institute cumulated many year researches and extensive practical knowledge, which have been reflected in numerous scientific studies and became the basis for statutory regulations and evaluation guidelines in and around the land reclamation. The article provides a brief historical sketch of scientific and practical cooperation of “DonNIGRI” with mining enterprises of former USSR and Ukraine. There are described some methodological peculiarities of the choice and application of reclamation methods. There are also determined the legal and practical difficulties in implementation of land reclamation, which nowadays appear before different specialists: surveyors, mining engineers, biologists, geologists and agronomists. As a head organization in it’s branch, “DonNIGRI” offers the progressive new approaches to decision-making and designing of various types of reclamation and economic usage of recovered lands, on the basis of actual needs of the community (population of cities and districts), and environmental, economic, architectural and social efficiency.

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