According to TASS, the teams will be engaged in isolating the mine workings so that they are filled with methane, and its concentration reaches a safe level.

“Three branches of the VGSC have arrived, an action plan has been drawn up, the branches are now receiving assignments, they are preparing to go to the mine.

The action plan is as follows: these three departments will isolate the mine workings, after the end of the isolation, natural filling with methane in the amount of 257 thousand cubic meters will begin.

m so that the methane level reaches more than 20%, when the risk of an explosion decreases, "TASS quotes the words of the Governor of the Kemerovo Region, Sergei Tsivilev.

He noted that, according to forecasts, it will take three days.

After the expiration of this time, a further decision will be made on the rescue work at the mine.

The commander of the Kemerovo Militarized Mine Rescue Detachment, Yuri She, noted that in parallel with the isolation work in the mine workings, the rescuers will extinguish possible fires.

Earlier, the administration of the Belovsky urban district of the Kemerovo region confirmed the data on the death of 52 people in the Listvyazhnaya mine.

Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia Dmitry Demeshin said that the preliminary cause of the emergency at the Listvyazhnaya mine is considered to be a methane explosion.

After the accident, the authorities of the Kemerovo region declared a three-day mourning period from 26 to 28 November.