Sergei Sobyanin: Heating is starting to turn on in Moscow.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced on his Telegram channel that there will be no unusually cold weather, but temperatures are beginning to drop. Therefore, the city is beginning to turn on the heating. "Heat will be supplied first to social facilities: kindergartens, schools, and hospitals, and then to residential buildings. Turning on the heating at all facilities will take several days," the mayor wrote.

Heating will be turned on first in kindergartens, schools, and hospitals.

The city's utilities department clarified that the work to turn on the heat, according to regulations, will last five days, meaning that on Sunday, heating will be turned on in all buildings. This includes heating in administrative buildings and industrial facilities. According to specialists, the city has long been prepared for the heat to be turned on. "Preparations for the new heating season began in early May, immediately after the heating was turned off," the department's press service reported. "For nearly four months, specialists from PAO MOEK conducted hydraulic and temperature tests on 18,900 km of heating networks, which allowed them to identify potentially unreliable sections and promptly repair them. Large-scale preparations were organized at 13 combined heat and power plants, 38 district and 42 block heating plants, and 97 small boiler houses."