Battery. Archival photo EKATERINBURG, Jan 2 More than 50 apartment buildings were left without heating and hot water in Yekaterinburg due to the accident, the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region reported. 17.6 thousand residents of the city of Verkhnyaya Salda in the Sverdlovsk region — 135 municipal residential buildings and 11 socially significant objects were left without heating and hot water. «Botanichesky» of the Chkalovsky administrative district of Yekaterinburg «, — the message says. According to available information, on Saturday evening the heating main of the Yekaterinburg Thermal Company was damaged in the area of house number 33 on Rodonitovaya Street in Yekaterinburg. Heat supply and hot water supply of 51 apartment buildings on the streets of Academician Shvarts, Krestinsky, Rodonitovaya, as well as on Tbilisi Boulevard are limited. Heat supply and hot water supply of two kindergartens, three schools, two medical institutions are also limited. In the building of the district prosecutor's office, the duty of operational officers is organized, supervisory measures are carried out. The approximate deadline for eliminating the accident is until 20.00 (18.00 Moscow time) on January 2. During the inspection, the prosecutor's office will give a legal assessment of compliance with the requirements of the legislation on the uninterrupted supply of communal resources to the population. According to its results, if there are grounds, prosecutorial response measures will be taken, the supervisory authority specifies. 
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