This is a report of a visit the author, made last summer to inspect, as a member of U. S. S. R. Coal Mine Technique Survey Group, recent coal mine techniques in U.S.S.R.He describes in outline the coal mining industry in U .S.S.R., and some plans for the advancement of mine technology which may well be referenced to the rationalization of coal mines in Japan;i .e.,
(1) Energy plan according to Russian seven-year plan for economics,
(2) Coal mine situations: coal field, coal reserves, thickness and inclination of coal seams, depth of mining, output, productivity, scale of mine, drifting and mining,
(3) Hydraulic mining,
(4) Underground gasification of coal, and
(5) Mechanical mining and drifting.
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