“…-in a direction parallel to the longwall face length (coordinate Z), at least half of its length should be placed, extraction mine working and part of the massif in the side opposite to the stope face to a width, which ensures the SSS components stabilization in the area of the model vertical bound; the massif texture is not essential hereholistic or collapsed and consolidated rocks; the fulfilment of such a condition implies a model size not less than 150 -180 m, taking into account sufficiently symmetrical initial and borderline conditions relative to the axis X located in the centre of the longwall face length, since with significant asymmetry the size Z will have to be doubled; -the model height (coordinate Y) should be chosen according to the reflection condition (with a certain margin) of all characteristic zones of rock pressure anomalies and the related texture transformations of the surrounding rock massif; in the coal seam roof, the model height should corresponds to the height of the frontal bearing pressure zone ahead of the longwall face with at least one-and-a-half margin for various SSS distortions types, conditioned by the vertical geostatic load application; behind the longwall face, in the mined-out space, three characteristic zones should be placed [2,7,18]: uncontrolled collapse, hinged-block displacement and smooth deflection of layers without discontinuity; in the seam bottom, also with a one-and-a-half fold margin, the zones of frontal bearing pressure and unloading are provided; meeting these conditions usually requires a model height of at least 60 -80 m; when modelling the joint mining of several coal seams, the height Y should include all of the above elements for the upper seam in the roof and the lower seam in the bottom, plus the thickness of partings; here it is necessary to choose a height Y for each specific case, but it definitely increases by 2 times or more.…”