UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 27, 2012. The Municipal Unitary Enterprise YekaterinburgEnergo took out a 100m RUR bank loan to pay its energy resource suppliers; the loan was secured by the city budget, Yekaterinburg Council’s press service reports.

80m RUR was used to pay the debt to Uralsevergaz and 20m RUR was transferred to Khimmash. This means the natural gas network operators were able to resume supplying gas to the local boiler houses.