His words are quoted by the press service of the head and government of the Moscow region.

"The problem turned out to be that the situation was hidden, not brought into our unified system of heat supply control in the Moscow region," Khromushin said.

He clarified that the situation with heat supply was hidden from the authorities for almost a whole day.

Earlier it was reported that the local emergency mode was introduced in Podolsk due to the prolonged lack of heating in the Klimovsk microdistrict.

Later it became known that heat had already been supplied to 45 apartment buildings in Podolsk.