The inhabitants of Chelyabinsk spent several days without heat supply due to a communal accident: "Rotted heating main, nothing helps"

Dozens of residents of Chelyabinsk were left without heat supply in thirty -degree frost. According to the local information site Chelyabinsk.ru , residents of private houses on Poltava Street in the Metallurgical District lost heat due to a communal accident, and have been living in cold dwellings for several days.

"The heat in the houses on Poltavskaya Street was turned off on the night of January 2 to 3, when the thermometer column in some places dropped to -32," the site says. According to eyewitnesses, the most regret is caused by the fact that some of the inhabitants of freezing houses are elderly people who are "fed promises", but the warmth does not return.

According to local residents, even batteries are already freezing in the affected houses. Relatives of the victims of frost expressed indignation in how the authorities were preparing for the heating season. “The heating system dispatcher says that the entire heating main is rotten, they put some plugs, clamps, but nothing helps,” the edition of a man whose relatives live in a house without heating quotes.

Meanwhile, the contractor of TESIS LLC, conducting restoration work on Poltava Street in Chelyabinsk, where residents of 24 private houses freeze without heating for the third day, promised that the accident would be eliminated today, January 5. The Deputy Head of the Housing and Public Utilities Department of the Chelyabinsk administration, Alexander Kocherchenko, explained: "Work is underway, but, for objective reasons, not as fast as we would like."

According to the Gismeteo portal, now in Chelyabinsk it’s no longer so cold: on the night of January 5 to 6, the thermometer column will drop to minus seven degrees, about -3 is expected tomorrow after a afternoon.

The inhabitants of Samara and Lipetsk were left without heat

Note that problems with heat supply were observed in Lipetsk. According to the Lipetsk-Media portal, heating networks were damaged on Nedelina Street. "Damage to the pipeline was discovered today (January 5. - Note Newsru.com ) during a scheduled inspection.

"During the repair measures, on January 5, from 10.00 to 17.00 hours, the heat supply of part of the apartment of the Lipcans living in the houses of Victory Avenue, the streets of Nedelin, Michurin is temporarily limited," the portal says.

Meanwhile, more than two thousand inhabitants temporarily remained in Samara without heat. The reason is the breakthrough of the pipeline. "There was a breakthrough on the supply of heat supply pipeline ... As a result of the accident, the supply of heat supply to 16 apartment buildings with a population of 2 thousand 226 people, including 428 children, was stopped," the Ministry of Emergencies said on the department’s website . At 20:00 local time, according to rescuers, emergency recovery work was completed, the heat supply of consumers was restored in full.