The key facts

  • 23 buildings, 4,168 residents (832 children) without heating after a heating main damage on Stroiteley Prospekt, November 7
  • A school and a kindergarten were affected — both were closed due to the day off
  • 17 specialists and 7 units of equipment are involved in the work; heat was expected to be restored by the end of the day on November 7

More than 4 thousand residents of Ivanovo were left without heat

On November 7, damage to a heating network in Ivanovo left 23 apartment buildings without heating, home to 4,168 people, including 832 children. This was reported by the Main Directorate of the EMERCOM of Russia for the Ivanovo Region; the accident was covered by Gazeta.Ru and Life.ru. The damage occurred near building No. 92A on Stroiteley Prospekt.

Who was affected by the outage and what is known about the repair work

In addition to residential buildings, the outage affected two socially significant facilities — a school and a kindergarten. According to the EMERCOM, both institutions were not operating at the time of the accident, as it happened on a day off, so the outage did not directly affect their functioning. The weather complicates the situation: at the time of the report, the air temperature in Ivanovo was around zero degrees. Seventeen specialists and seven units of equipment have been deployed to repair the damage, including three people and one vehicle from EMERCOM. According to the initial plan, heat supply was expected to be restored by the end of the day on November 7; the exact time when heat would return to each apartment was not specified by Life.ru.

Context: a series of utility accidents

The report on the Ivanovo accident was accompanied by mentions of other recent incidents on heating networks: in Lipetsk, a pipe with boiling water burst on the street, injuring a 19-year-old pregnant woman who suffered burns; the prosecutor's office took the incident under its supervision. In Vladivostok, a heating main burst during rush hour — a stream of water flooded cars; according to Life.ru, more than 21 thousand people there were left without water and heating. Life.ru had also previously reported an accident in Ulyanovsk on Karl Liebknecht Street, where 21 apartment buildings were left without heating and hot water, and the city administration monitored the progress of the work. These cases are described by the outlets as separate incidents; their connection to the accident in Ivanovo is limited to the common theme of heating network damage.