Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia)

Panina O. V., Head of Department, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, opanina@fa.ru
Krasyukova N. L., Professor, Doctor of Economic Sciences
Eremin S. G., Associate Professor, Candidate of Juridical Sciences

The article studies behavior of the Russian coal industry and its problems of the present day, and sets forth its prospects for growth. Despite an increment in coal production output until 2023, the industry faces high losses because of decrease of export and due to global re-focusing on energy-saving technologies. Moreover, there are problems connected with lack of personnel and up-to-date equipment, complex logistics and insufficient railway infrastructure in Russia, which also abridges the export potential of the industry. On the other hand, the coal industry possesses considerable prospects for growth, connected with stimulation of innovative R&D, introduction of novel coal gasification technologies and with improvement of eco-friendliness of mining operations, which can mitigate ill-effects of coal on air and make coal products environmentally safe. The methods of research were the system analysis, statistical processing of information, comparative analysis, performance prediction, evaluation of economic efficiency, risk assessment, and other.

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