‘The scheduled pressure testing of hot water pipes has been finished for the time being, so the dwellers of Yekaterinburg are going to have plenty of hot water until the next session of tests begins,’ the spokesperson for Yekaterinburg municipal council Konstantin Pudov said to UrBC.

‘Delivering hot water stably is something that differentiates Yekaterinburg from the other local towns. In Chelyabinsk, Nizhniy Tagil, and Kamensk-Uralskiy, for instance, hot water is frequently missing for months in the summertime. This wasn’t the case in Yekaterinburg — either last year or before. The only exception to this rule was the post-pressure-testing accidents that required a stoppage in the hot water supply until things got fixed,’ he noted.