Russian regions continue to struggle with utility problems, including outages and failures in the heating system. Thus, after a scandal due to a power outage in the Moscow region, an acute situation arose in Siberia – in Novosibirsk, a state of emergency was introduced due to utility failures.
There, an emergency occurred on Petropavlovskaya Street in the Leninsky district on the left bank of the Ob. According to the NGS.ru portal, hot water flowed down the street, after which it went to the neighboring ones – Plakhotnogo, Kotovsky, Parkhomenko, Trolleynaya. As a result, 161 apartment buildings, eight children’s educational institutions and six medical institutions were left without heating.
“Unfortunately, in the zone of the accident in the heat supply system of the Leninsky district, events are developing according to a bad scenario. While filling the system, a new pipeline defect was discovered on Petropavlovskaya Street. Over the past 24 hours, this is already the third rush in this city quarter,” wrote Novosibirsk Governor Andrei Travnikov in the Telegram channel.
Several regions previously reported heating problems. A difficult situation was observed in the Moscow region. Thus, at the beginning of January in the urban district of Podolsk, the supply of water and heat to the Klimovsk microdistrict was suspended. The reason is a break in the heating main. The temperature in the apartments dropped to 16 degrees; hospital patients were warmed with heat guns. In Solnechnogorsk, due to an accident at an electrical substation, the temperature in apartments dropped to 9-12 degrees; authorities deployed 18 mobile generators to improve the situation. Due to the breakdown of transformers, light and heat were lost in the Ramensky urban district; a number of private houses have had no electricity since January 3. Accidents were also recorded in Khimki and Elektrostal. Local authorities are working to resolve the problems that have arisen.
It was also reported that recently an entire city in the Tula region was left without heating in 11-degree frost. In addition, residents of more than 100 houses were left without heating in Voronezh in 18-degree frost.
Also on the list of cities where problems with heating and power supply were also recorded: Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Rostov-on-Don, Chelyabinsk. Also on the list are the Vladimir region (Kolchugino), the Sverdlovsk region (Pervouralsk), and the Yaroslavl region (the village of Krasnye Tkachi).
The Kremlin explained the heating outages due to frost and wear and tear in many cases of Soviet-era public utility infrastructure.
Source: Rosbalt
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