In Moscow, at the request, they began to turn on heating in medical institutions and kindergartens

Now in Moscow, applications are being received from medical organizations, as well as preschool institutions with requests for early switching on of heating, informed Deputy Mayor for Housing and Communal Services and Improvement Petr Biryukov. Relevant work, according to him, is already underway.

“The decision on the start date of the heating season in full will be made taking into account weather conditions,”— quotes the complex of the city economy of Moscow, Mr. Biryukov.

The procedure for turning on the heating takes several days. “This does not happen all at once, the technological period is five days,” said the deputy mayor. Social institutions are the first to receive heat, heating is turned on in parallel in residential buildings and offices, then in trade and industry enterprises, Petr Biryukov said.

In Moscow, heating is turned on by order of the city government if the average daily temperature is below 8 ° C for five days and, according to the weather forecast, its further decrease is expected.

Former weather forecasters predicted in Moscow and throughout the European part of Russia, frosts down to -2 ° C. Cold weather and precipitation in the capital changed abnormal heat.

Maria Fedotova