The World Cup will not affect the timing of the completion of preparations for a new heating season

(KZN.RU, June 18, Ksenia Shvetsova). The work on the preparation for a new heating season started in Kazan. In total, it is necessary to prepare 5728 apartment buildings and dormitories for the next winter. The holding of the World Cup on football should not affect the work, it must be completed exactly on time. Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of the city, gave such an order today at the Business Monday.

Iskander Giniyatullin, the deputy head of the Executive Committee, told about the results of the last heating season in Kazan. According to him, the duration of the past heating season was 226 days. Thanks to careful preparation, the winter passed without large-scale shutdowns. After the end of the heating season, the city began to pressurize the heaters of the branch of the AO “Tatenergo” Kazan Heating Networks according to the approved schedule. In the course of these works, the damage is identified. It is also necessary to turn off the hot water supply to eliminate it.

The average duration of hot water outages for the elimination of identified network damage was 18 days. To solve this problem in the next year, it is planned to carry out works locally, with smaller sections, so that all available forces can be directed to eliminate damage, said I. Giniyatullin. He said that this experience has already been confirmed by the example of the AO “Kazenergo”. They perform works throughout the summer. As a result, the citizens almost do not notice any interruptions with hot water.

For today, 1528 residential houses have been prepared for the new heating season, which is 29% of the total housing stock. 800 institutions are being prepared by the city's social services, including 196 schools, 356 kindergartens, 119 public health institutions, as well as 129 cultural, sports and other budget organizations. For today, 69 objects of the social sphere have already been prepared, which is 9% of the total number.

According to I. Giniyatullin, major programs for the repair of housing and social institutions have a great influence on the quality of preparation for the winter.

Last year, a large-scale program for the transfer to the individual hot water supply of 1112 residential buildings and 165 budget institutions was implemented in Kazan. The program allowed to improve the quality of hot water supply. “In general, there is a decrease in the fee for hot water to 12% in the first 4 months of this year compared to the same period last year”, said the speaker.

Systematic work is carried out in Kazan to update the objects of urban infrastructure, including boiler houses, said Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan. “The deterioration of the infrastructure that we inherited from the Soviet past still weighs heavily on the shoulders of our public utilities. We continue to restore order in this complex urban industry. Today, every fourth boiler house in the city has been modernized”, said I. Metshin. “We spend every summer increasing the scale of an overhaul. We do it without any disruptions during the heating season. But as always, there are more things that we have to do yet”.

Despite the great occupation and the World Cup that is taking place in the city, the preparation work should be completed on time, noted I. Metshin. “I ask all those responsible to finish the main work according to the planned deadline and regulations despite the great occupation of the championship”.

Due to the World Cup, the so-called regime of technological silence is operating in the city. Among other things, it provides no shutdowns of water supply in buildings and houses that are located next to the objects of the World Cup. “Of course, the championship has left its mark on this work. But we knew about this in advance. Therefore all the plans of the work were drawn up in such a way as to take into account the regime of technological silence. Nevertheless, the work is carried out in the established mode. This is not the first international event that takes place in the city, and we have coped with this task before”, marked I. Ginniyatullin and noted that all the preparatory work will be fully completed by September 1.