Problems of residential heat supply in Russia

The paper analyzes the residential heat supply in the country in 2000–2009. Russia’s transition to a market economy has caused a negative heat supply of households receiving heat from district heating (DH) systems, which significantly reduces the population’s living standard. The regional DH systems built under the planned economy do not meet the conditions of today’s realities and must undergo substantial organizational, technical, and technological reorganization for the benefit of the main consumers of heat energy, i.e., the population and social area. Measures for heat supply reorganization are suggested.