On 27 March 2015, German professors K. Drebenstedt and G. Heimeyer, NMU faculty and students visited the reclamation facilities of DTEK Pavlohradvuhillya as part of the joint educational project of NMU and the Freiberg Mining Academy ‘Biotechnology in Mining’. During coal mining in Western Donbass mines, 55% of waste rock is placed in the subsidence zones, i.e. in a non-waste dumping method. DTEK Pavlohradvuhillya specialists showed three reclamation sites: technical (waste rock storage), agricultural and forestry. At the forest reclamation site, the project participants got acquainted with the successful results of 50 years of research by Dnipropetrovs'k National University on growing timber plantations on rock with different types of bulk soil. The students and teachers of NMU also visited the Pavlohradvuhillia Labour Glory Museum and recognised some of the famous NMU professors at the stands.