"In the zone of limited heat supply, 1120 residential buildings remain (at the time of the accident there were 1328), 95 thousand people (at the time of the accident there were 105 400), 83 socially significant objects (at the time of the accident there were 93)", - RIA Novosti reports the message of the operational headquarters to eliminate the consequences of the accident.
At night at the TPP-1 in Ulan-Ude, a short circuit occurred with a fire in the power wires in the cable compartment supplying the control panel.
This led to the shutdown of four heating boilers and a turbine generator in conditions of low ambient temperatures in the city, down to -30 ° C.
Later it became known that the specialists of the electric department of CHPP-1 in Ulan-Ude made a connection to the power supply for the fuel supply after the accident.