Arkhangelsk Residents Face 18,000-Ruble January Utility Bills
Residents of Arkhangelsk Oblast received their January housing and utility bills. Some will have to pay nearly 20,000 rubles ($222). Heating proved especially expensive: the January frosts spared no one. Northerners told how much they will pay for utilities last month.
The largest amount mentioned by readers of 29.RU was 18,000 rubles ($200). Some will have to pay 16,000 rubles ($178).
«64.7 sq. m, heating — 7,400 rubles ($82), maintenance — 3,250 rubles ($36), gas, water, electricity — each item averages 500-1,000 rubles ($6-11), — wrote Nadezhda. — And this despite the fact that we economize on everything, we unscrewed the light bulbs, now only one bulb is on in each room and space, we save gas and water. But there is no way to save on heating, maintenance and garbage!»
«4,930 rubles ($55). This is just for heating, 78 sq. m apartment area,» — said Galina.
«Severodvinsk, 70 sq. m, 6,300 rubles ($70) just for heating. This is a record, because even when we heated during severe frosts and for long periods, the maximum was 5,500 rubles ($61),» — writes Dmitry.
«4,500 rubles ($50) for 49 sq. m,» — said Lyubov.
Despite such amounts, accidents are not uncommon in Arkhangelsk Oblast. Residents regularly find themselves without utility services. On February 2, an emergency power outage occurred in the Pinezhsky and Kholmogorsky districts of Pomorie. A total of 9,171 homes and 85 socially significant facilities, including schools, kindergartens and boiler houses, were left without electricity.
At the end of January, heat supply deteriorated in part of Severodvinsk due to an accident on a pipeline.
Earlier, residents of an apartment building in Arkhangelsk were left without hot water and heating during the frost. Radiators burst in their entrance, and the temperature in the apartments did not rise above 12 °C (54 °F). Reports of cold in apartments came from different parts of the city.
Tell us in the comments how much you will have to pay for utilities in January.
