Deep below the earth, we spend three days with the men and women working at the frontline to keep Russia, and the world, fuelled.

Learn to smell the scent of the rouble during your morning shower, demands the head of coal mining Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev.

Harry Potter joins Vladimir Lenin in coal-mining Kemerovo.

A methane explosion at  Mine No. 7 in the Prokopyevsky district of Kemerovo region led to the deaths of four miners.

The 5.3 tremor was felt over a wide area but was centred some 21km from Belovo in Kemerovo region.

The quake could be a world record for a tremor caused with involvement by humans, it is claimed.

Once the coal mining capital of Central Kolyma, it was ghosted after the 1996 mine explosion.

New discovery of rare crystal Rosenbergite at 'burning ice' site where earth is hot despite temperatures of minus 35C.

Anatoly Usoltsev, 55, vanished, but it took mining specialists from Kuzbass region to locate him.