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The branch “Industrial Management Center” (IMC), which manages the mining divisions of JSC “Ukrzaliznytsia”, disclosed for NADRA.INFO readers the key performance indicators of railway quarries

Mining

In 2024, Ukrzaliznytsia’s quarries extracted about 1.3 million cubic meters(1,288.43 thousand cubic meters) of non-metallic minerals (excluding underground water).

Production in 2024 exceeded the volume of 2023 by 1.9% (1264.29 thousand cubic meters), but did not reach the level of 2021 (1556.19 thousand cubic meters).

In 2024, production was recorded at 12 out of 19 open pits; as of April 2025, subsoil use is carried out by 13 production units. Due to the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, two mining assets of Ukrzaliznytsia from 2022 are located in the temporarily occupied territory (Khlebodarovskiy and Trudovskiy).

The largest volumes of extraction (more than 100 thousand cubic meters in solids each) were shown by Hlystunivskyi (Cherkasy region), Kryukivskyi (Poltava region), Znamenskyi (Kirovograd region), Penizyvitskyi (Zhytomyr region), Kamyanitskyi (Zakarpattya region), Tomashhorodskyi (Rivne region), Redutskyi quarries (Poltava region).

Hlystunovskiy quarry has been the leader in terms of the volume of mined material for all four years. This production unit extracted the most in 2023 – 275.26 thousand cubic meters, in 2024 production decreased to 213.45 thousand cubic meters. This quarry is also the leader in production and sales of crushed stone products (see below).

The largest increase in production in 2024 was shown by Penyzevitsky quarry (+146.6% compared to 2023).

Top 5 quarries of Ukrzaliznytsia by production volumes in 2024:

1. Hlystunivskyi – 213.45 thousand cubic meters (-22.5%);
2. Kryukivskyi – 186,77 thousand cubic meters (+11,4%);
3. Znamensky – 156.56 thousand cubic meters (-20%);
4. Penizevitsky – 134.12 thousand cubic meters (+146.6%);
5. Kamyanitsky – 124.04 thousand cubic meters (+45%).

Kryukivskyi, Korolevskyi and Samchynetskyi quarries demonstrated stable upward dynamics of production in 2022-24.

Production

The total volume of products (except water) produced by Ukrzaliznytsia JSC quarries in 2024 amounted to 3,376.45 thousand tons (+2.1% to 2023).

Top 5 quarries of Ukrzaliznytsia in terms of the volume of products produced in 2024:

1. Hlystunivskyi – 576.35 thousand tons (-22.4% to 2023);
2. Kryukovsky – 468,64 thousand tons (+11,6%);
3. Znamensky – 418.64 thousand tons (-20%);
4. Penizevitsky – 352.37 thousand tons (+68.3%);
5. Kamyanitsky – 304.08 thousand tons (+46%).

The most rapid increase in production (against the background of low comparative base of 2023) was recorded at Bechovskiy (+422%) and Klesovskiy (+141%) quarries.

Realization

Total sales of products (except water) in 2024 amounted to 2,289.35 thousand tons (-10.7% vs. 2023).

Top 5 quarries of Ukrzaliznytsia by volume of sold products in 2024:

1. Khlystunivskyi – 424.88 thousand tons (-27.8% to 2023);
2. Kamyanitsky – 311.48 thousand tons (+49.9%);
3. Kryukovsky – 280.79 thousand tons (-8.15%);
4. Znamensky – 276.43 thousand tons (-39.2%);
5. Penizevitsky – 239.85 thousand tons (+58.3%).

Heads

The PMU also reported the names of the heads of mining production units as of April 2025:

• Adabasky – Oleg Batsyu;
• Bekhovsky – Arsby Visitaev;
• Erastovsky – Vladimir Podgorny;
• Znamensky – Alexander Gruzin;
• Kamyanitsky – Ivan Fedurtsa;
• Klesovsky – Maryna Gritskevich;
• Korolevsky – Vasiliy Kopin;
• Kryukovsky – Ivan Sadokhin;
• Ladyzhynskyi – Alexei Gritsayenko;
• Penizevitsky – Oleg Ruban;
• Pogrebishchenskyi – Valery Kilchuk;
• Radoshynskyi – Vyacheslav Korostel;
• Redutskyi – Denis Krot;
• Samchinetskyi – Oleksiy Grytsayenko;
• Stryjski – Victor Odinak;
• Tomashgorodskyi – Boris Kuditin;
• Hlystunovskyi – Oleg Lomakin.

There is no data on the heads of Khlebodarivskyi and Trudivskyi quarries, which are located in the temporarily occupied territory.

Context

The main production of the railroad quarries is crushed stone of 25-60 mm fraction for the needs of Ukrzaliznytsia.

Since February 2025. The PMU has been headed by Oleg Lapyuk, the former head of the Kryukiv and Tomashgorod quarries. His predecessor Vladimir Naumenko headed the branch in 2023-2025.

In 2020-2021, against the background of multimillion losses of mining divisions (-200 million UAH in 11 months of 2020), Ukrzaliznytsia announced its intention to put some quarries for privatization.

Ukrzaliznytsia is also a producer of bottled water.

Read more at: https://nadra.info/2025/04/ukrzaliznytsias-quarries-how-much-was-mined-produced-and-sold-in-2021-2024/