Yekaterinburg-based dwellings, production sites, and social welfare buildings are to get heating cut-outs on May 10, 2007; hospitals, kindergartens and other socially important buildings will be the last to be cut out. Mayor of Yekaterinburg Arkadiy Chernetskiy has already signed a provision regarding the end of the heating season and issued some proposals related to the heating season 2007/2008. The city’s Fuel and Energy Administration has drawn up a schedule for hydraulic tests to be given to all the heat networks in Yekaterinburg. The schedule also provides for seven pressure and hydraulic tests during the spring and summer months; hot water supply will have to be interrupted throughout the testing periods, with the first series of tests to take place on May 15-17, 2007 and the last series scheduled for August 22-23, 2007.

The cutting-out is controlled by Deputy Mayor Konstantin Krynin.