[en] The specificity and problems of coal industry technologization are identified, its relationship with the environmental safe-ty of mining region is determined. Among the most obvious fac-tors hindering the development of technical-and-technological and environmental spheres are identified: high technological inertness of mining enterprises, significant dependence on import of means of production, abandonment by the state of the process of collect-ing and redistributing raw material rent, low environmental responsibility of owners of coal mining enterprises. The following threats are identified: an insufficient rate of equipment renewal, including parts providing environmental safety; high level of consumption of fixed assets; low innovative activity of coal industry enterprises. (paper)