Coal mines in the area of Me？imurje and Podravina region around Koprivnica after 1945

Sa？etak The paper presents development of coal exploitation in the area of Me？imurje and Podravina region around Koprivnica in the period after 1945 with reference to the time period between the two world wars. The paper is primarily founded on researching archive sources located in the State archives of Me？imurje and the Archive collection centre in Koprivnica, whereas the missing data were supplemented through the archive sources of the State archives in Vara？din, State archives in Bjelovar, State archives in Virovitica, and to lesser extent with articles dealing with coal mine in Podravina region around Koprivnica immediately after 1945 and coal mines in the 1980s, since those sources were not preserved in the coal mine funds