“…The scientific foundations of the technology of active management of the state of the rock mass have been developed at IGTM NASU. An analytical description of the stress-strain state of the rock mass near the working excavation [4,5,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18], including taking into account: free gas in the rocks, water saturation and man-made cracks [7,[19][20][21], geological disturbances [7], extreme deformation of rocks [4,5], physicochemical destruction of coal [22] is worked out by scientists of the institute. A model, which has been verified by numerous experiments in mines, has been developed.…”