January 29, 2013. As of January 28, 2013, the communal housing services providers based in Sverdlovsk Region failed to pay a total of 4.606bn RUR worth of natural gas bills, Uralsevergaz’s press officer reports.

‘Not only do the companies fail to pay off their earlier debts, but they also haven’t been paying for their current natural gas consumption. For one, Uralsevergaz only received 367.8m RUR in terms of December payments; this only comes to 31.7% of the total sum. The December supply was to have been paid for by January 25,’ the company says.

YekaterinburgEnergo, with its total of 560m RUR worth of debt (including 144.2m RUR for December supply), is Uralsevergaz’s largest debtor.

As for the regional municipalities, Yekaterinburg, with its 693.3m RUR worth of debts, happens to be the largest debtor, followed by Nizhniy Tagil (661m RUR), Ivdel (370.6m RUR), Rezh (301.6m RUR), Kushva (253.9m RUR), and Krasnouralsk (208.4m RUR).

Uralsevergaz’s press service stressed that the debtors must react urgently to pay off their debts in order to avoid a stoppage in the delivery process.