The Kronotskaya River is located on the east coast of Kamchatka, northeast of Petropavlovsk-on-Kamchatka. It is about 45 km long, with a total drop of 375 m. On its way from Kronotsky Lake to Kronotsky Bay, the river crosses two different areas both in relief and geological structure: in its upper reaches - the Eastern Volcanic Area, in its lower reaches - the Kronotsky coastal plain.

The All-Union Scientific and Technical Conference (Leningrad, 1957) on the design of dewatering measures on watered coal deposits noted significant successes in the design of dewatering measures associated with the relevant mining works. At the same time, the attention of scientific and technical community was fixed on a number of significant shortcomings related to the design of drainage works. For example, it was noted that the design of mining works is often conducted without taking into account the hydrogeological features of the field and the possibility of their drainage, so the design solutions for drainage are often complex. The methodology of hydrogeological calculations and obtaining initial design parameters for dewatering are still not sufficiently developed for complex hydrogeological conditions.