Management of Environmental Activities in the Surface Coal Mines of the Amur Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai

In the Far East of the Russian Federation, since 1932 open-cast mining of coal deposits. At present, coal mining in the territory of Amur Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai is carried out y five coal mines with a production capacity of 0.2 to 4.0 million tons of coal per year. Based on the results of the processing of satellite images on two coal cuts of the “North-East” and “Boguchansky”, the coefficients of the self-healing of the vegetation cover in the mining landscapes were recorded in the range of 0.535–0.548 o and in the three coal cuts “Yerkovsky”, “Marekansky” and “Burensky-2” 0.241, 0.104 and 0.045, respectively. With the aim of improving non-favorable environmental situation , it was proposed to change the non-transport technology of overburden work, , and also to carry out forest reclamation work with the planting of pine seedlings in the waste dumps at sites with the area оf 2–3 ha that are staggered ordering on the rock dump.