"At the direction of the mayor of Moscow, today at 08:00 Moscow time, work began to turn on heating in the housing stock, in total, heating will be included in 34 thousand houses," TASS quoted him as saying.
As Biryukov noted, the inclusion procedure takes several days.
He also said that social facilities began to be connected earlier.
So, heat is already supplied to almost 2 thousand institutions, the deputy mayor added.
Earlier, the mayor of the city Sergei Sobyanin said that the heating season this year will begin ahead of schedule.