In St. Petersburg with the beginning of autumn came a sharp cold snap. Residents of the Northern capital, freezing in their apartments, rushed to buy heaters.
As "Delovoy Peterburg" notes, over the past week the number of requests in search engines "to buy a heater" increased five times (up to 12.8 thousand) compared to the last week of summer.
Head of the Committee on Energy and Engineering Stanislav Protasov signed a decree on the start of the heating season. Social institutions will be the first to get heat. And then will gradually start to connect and the rest of the objects, the official said.
The main weather forecaster of the Northern capital Alexander Kolosov said that during the weekend in the city the air will get up to +15 Celsius, but at night it will be possible to get below zero temperature.