Mayor of Yekaterinburg Arkadiy Chernetskiy issued a list of measures needed to gradually finish the 2006/2007 heating season in the city, the city council’s spokesman Konstantin Pudov said to UrBC.

'The decree to this extent was drawn up as early as the end of April 2007, but the heating cut-outs will only begin on May 10, 2007. The date provided in the cutting-out agreement will be considered the official end of the heating season for each particular place,’ he explained.

'These will be the non-residential premises like production facilities that will be cut out first, then it will be the city’s living quarters‘ turn, and finally, the heating season will be over in socially important buildings like schools, hospitals, and kindergartens,’ Mr. Pudov said.