St. Petersburg to build three snow-melting facilities by 2030
St. Petersburg Water Utility assured deputies of sufficient capacity for snow disposal. To enhance operations by 2030, three new stationary snow-melting facilities are planned to be put into operation.
Apr 20, 2026 0
On February 2, First Deputy General Director of St. Petersburg Water Utility Maxim Lukyanchuk spoke at a meeting of the City Economy Commission of the Legislative Assembly.
Snow-melting points in St. Petersburg handle large volumes of snow to prevent urban congestion during winter months.
Deputies inquired whether the organization has enough resources to receive and process snow, against the backdrop of reports from citizens about occasional queues of dump trucks.
Lukyanchuk provided comparative data: «This season, 2025/26, is not some record. To date, about 1.3 million cubic meters of snow have been received. Let»s look at the perspective. In the 2018/19 season, we received about 3 million cubic meters, in 2021/22 — about 4 million cubic meters.«
Current Capacities and Future Plans
According to the St. Petersburg government, the city currently has 11 snow-melting and 7 snow-receiving points. Their total productivity is 101.5 thousand cubic meters per day.
All facilities are equipped with surveillance cameras, and access to them is available to organizations that have signed the relevant contract.
The First Deputy General Director of the Water Utility announced plans: «Plans until 2030 include completing the construction of three stationary snow-melting facilities.»
The Energy Committee specified the addresses of future facilities:
- Rustaveli Street, building 31, block 4, letter A;
- Konnolakhtinsky Prospekt, plot 6;
- Voroshilov Street, plot 19.
According to data from the Unified Information System «Procurement», at the end of January, a supplier was selected for designing the facility on Rustaveli Street. The contract cost is 37.7 million rubles (approximately $419,000 at current rates).
Contracts have also been signed for designing the repair of snow-melting facilities on Obvodny Canal Embankment (5.9 million rubles, about $65,600 at current rates) and Krasnoputilovskaya Street (6 million rubles, about $66,700 at current rates).
Reasons for Delays and Snow Volumes
Answering the question about queues, Maxim Lukyanchuk explained that they occur for technical reasons, as it is impossible to drive close to the equipment. Unloading one dump truck takes on average 5–7 minutes, and during peak hours the load is particularly high.
Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Improvement Yegor Paschenko noted that without temporary snow storage sites, it is unavoidable due to the limited capacity of melting points. According to GOST (Russian state standard), such snow piles must be removed within 9–12 days.
According to committee estimates, daily, only from the street-road network, about 59 thousand cubic meters of snow are received. Moreover, about 40% of the total volume is brought from other territories, not from roads.
Paschenko proposed increasing the number of temporary snow storage sites, but it did not receive support from deputies. Chairman of the City Economy Commission Alexander Khodosok stated: «We all understand that these huge piles satisfy no one.»
In conclusion, Lukyanchuk emphasized: «Do we have enough capacity? We have enough capacity.»
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