Moscow Basin

Moscow Basin,

lignite basin, c.200 mi (320 km) long and 50 mi (80 km) wide, central European Russia, S of Moscow. Tula is the chief city of the region. Low-grade bituminous and lignite coals, suitable for the power plants of the Moscow industrial region, are mined there.
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On the waterways of the Moscow basin on Wednesday, April 24, the summer navigation of 2019 started.
Russian Federation : Summer navigation started in Moscow basin
The government plans to reduce the inefficient production of low-quality coal in the Urals region and Moscow basin. The high production costs due to difficult geological and climate conditions will constrain the development of coal production in the Pechora basin.
Russian coal producers invest in operations: the world's fifth largest coal producer has a government backed plan to grow and optimize production through 2030
The distribution of the genus Estlandia is confined to the Middle and Upper Ordovician of the North Estonian Confacies Belt and the northwestern part of the Moscow Basin (Rubel 1963; Alikhova 1969).
New species of Estlandia (Clitambonitidina, Brachiopoda) in the Upper Ordovician of the East Baltic/Estlandia (Clitambonitidina, Brachiopoda) uus liik Ida-Baltikumi Ulem-Ordoviitsiumist
The largest regional falls in output were recorded in the Moscow basin (Tula region), down 17.7%, and in the Russian part (the rest being in Ukraine) of the Donets basin, down 15.8%.
CIS coal
The summer navigation 2018, marked by such major factors as the FIFA World Cup, a meteorologically favorable summer and a record-long golden autumn, closed in the Moscow basin on November 17.
Russian Federation : Winter navigation on the Moscow River has become another tourist magnet of the Russian capital
The Moscow Basin forms a crescent shape starting to the north of the capital city and running around the west to taper out south of the city.
C.I.S. coal
"Our dispatching service, which deals with the transportation in the Moscow basin, defined our anniversary navigation participant.
Russian Federation : Reaches in Central Russia note the growth of passenger traffic by 4.3%, the cruise segment grew by 6%
In the late 1980s in Russia, Kuznetsk was producing around 150 Mt/y, Kansk-Achinsk some 50 Mt/y, with Pechora, the Moscow basin and the Urals region producing some 30 Mt/y each and South Yakutia about 15 Mt/y.
World coal
"The hydraulic structures of the Moscow Canal, being an example of domestic engineering, eventually became a kind of brand and adornment of Central Russia, a monumental symbol of the inland waterways of the Moscow basin. We consistently support these facilities in a normal, trouble-free condition and plan to continue reconstruction projects to preserve a unique architectural appearance, "he said.
Russian Federation : Rechniki Central Russia gave a new life to the legendary monument "Mother Volga"
Spring flooding in the Moscow Basin of Inland Waterways has declined.
Russian Federation : The flood in the Moscow basin began to decline
Modernization of the rolling stock of the Moscow Basin will allow the filling of inland waterways with beautiful energy efficient vessels.
Russian Federation : "The Moscow Canal" is preparing to transfer its technical fleet to electric traction
The connection between the Baltoscandian and Moscow basins obviously broke off in the early Katian corresponding to the Nabala Stage, because the lithology of the sediments overlying the widespread cryptocrystalline limestones of the Rakvere Stage differs from that in the neighbouring Russian areas.
Mean grain size fluctuations of the siliciclastic component in the Aizpute-41 core: implication for end-Ordovician glaciation

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