The production of gas increased by 1.2% to 277 billion cubic meters and coal by 2.9% to 121 million tons.
Russia produced over 39.9 billion tons of iron ore during that period, 1.6% up on the same period of last year.
The production of petrol increased by 5.3% reaching 12.7 million tons, the volume of diesel fuel went up by 6% up to 23.9 million tons and fuel oil by 4.6% to 23.2 million tons.
Electric power generation grew by 1.8% to 415 billion kW/hr and heat power by 2.8% up to 765 million Gcal.
During the six months of this year, the volume of industrial production grew by 3.6% as against the same period of last year.
In May 2005, industrial production growth amounted to 1.4% against the same period in 2004, or 6.4% lower than in April this year.
