Russians Come Out To Protest Over Heating Cutoffs In Freezing Weather

Residents of Omsk blocked the road.

Residents of Russian Omsk partially blocked the road in protest against the disconnection of heat in homes and inaction of local authorities. This was reported by a former deputy of the Moscow City Duma Evgeny Stupin. As "Beware the News" reports, residents of the Serebryanyi Bereg microdistrict complain that since the beginning of January the temperature in their apartments has not risen above 18 degrees Celsius, and the batteries remain "barely warm."

The residents say that the management company refers to pressure problems at CHPP-5, and the city authorities ignore their appeals. "Silver Beach will die out soon. They charge three hides for heating, even though it's +5 in the entrance," complained one of the locals. Problems with heat are also recorded in other districts of the city. For example, the house No. 19 on Gospitalnaya Street has been cold since mid-December, despite the twenty-degree frost. Pipes are also bursting all over the city.

In the background of the situation in Omsk, similar problems with heat supply arise in other regions of Russia, writes The Moscow Times. For example, in the city of Zhukovsky, located 20 kilometers from Moscow, the heating was cut off in the afternoon of January 24 in twenty-degree frost due to an accident on the heating network. The local administration reported that the disruptions affected more than 40 residential houses, some high-rise buildings were also left without hot water.

Nearly before that it became known about the power outage in the closed city of Severomorsk, where the main naval base of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation is located. After the collapse of five transmission towers, the warships were switched to an autonomous mode of power supply, and the residents of Severomorsk and Murmansk were partially left without heating due to the shutdown of boiler houses.

January 23, residents of the city of Engels in the Saratov region said that for ten days they have been living without heating and hot water against the background of frost, which, according to the service "Yandex Weather", in some places reaches -30 degrees Celsius. According to them, the cause of the disruptions was the unsatisfactory condition of boiler equipment and heating networks.

Systemic problems are related to the critical wear and tear of the communal infrastructure. According to the Russian Ministry of Construction, the wear and tear of networks in the regions reaches 40-80%, and the rate of their renewal, as stated by Alexander Yakubovsky, a member of the Duma Committee on Construction and Housing, is half the required rate.

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