Heating is being turned on in Kyiv and several other cities: where radiators will start warming on 2 November

Heating season is underway in Ukraine. On Monday, 2 November, residential buildings in Kyiv, Cherkasy, Chernivtsi, Poltava and other cities will begin to be connected to heating.

Where heating is being started on 2 November Kyiv In the capital, residential buildings will begin to be connected to heating starting Monday. According to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, the heating season actually began back on 16 October—then heat was first supplied to hospitals, kindergartens and schools. At the request of administrators, almost half of the social sector institutions have been connected. In particular, heat is already being received by 157 medical facilities, 402 kindergartens and 85 schools. Klitschko explained that starting Kyiv’s centralized heat supply system, whose network length is about 3 thousand kilometers, can take up to seven days. Therefore, they decided to begin connecting the residential sector in advance of the forecasted cold snap. Cherkasy From 2 November the heating season for the population will start. Mayor Anatolii Bondarenko reported that heat will be supplied to residential buildings gradually. The connections will take several days, so radiators in different buildings will start to warm at different times. Educational and medical institutions in Cherkasy were connected earlier. Chernivtsi From Monday heating will begin to be supplied to residential buildings and enterprises. According to Mayor Roman Klichuk, this decision was made at an extraordinary executive committee meeting on 30 October, taking into account the forecast of a gradual drop in average daily temperature. Schools, medical facilities and other social infrastructure objects in the city began to be heated back on 20 October—at the requests of administrators. Poltava In the Poltava community, the heating period for 2 November begins for the 2026-2027 years. According to Poltavaoblenergo, boiler houses will be started according to an agreed schedule over the course of two days. Therefore some residents will receive heat already on Monday, the rest on Tuesday, 3 November. If heating does not appear, residents are advised to contact the building managers, in particular management companies, housing cooperatives and condominiums. Zaporizhzhia In the city, boiler houses will be started in stages from 2 to 9 November, said Secretary of the Zaporizhzhia City Council and acting mayor Regina Kharchenko. After the heat carrier is supplied, management companies, condominiums and housing cooperatives must adjust internal building systems, remove air and purge risers. From 10 November the contact center 1580 will begin accepting complaints about lack of heating. Ivano-Frankivsk In the city, boiler houses began to be switched on gradually in the night of 2 November. Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv expects that by the end of the day most of them will already be operating. According to him, currently 499 buildings in Ivano-Frankivsk remain on centralized heating. Irpin The municipal utility “Teploenerhopostach” is starting to supply the heat carrier to residential buildings and social facilities. At the same time, due to power outages, the system start-up may take longer and heat will appear in homes gradually. Where the heating season has already started In Vinnytsia the heating season for residents began on 1 November. As of 11:00 2 November heat was supplied to 487 of the 1210 residential buildings serviced by Vinnytsiamiskteploenerho. In the city’s social sector heating is already being received by 47 kindergartens, 9 healthcare facilities, 31 schools and 3 educational complexes. Also, on 1 November the heating season began in Sloviansk in Donetsk region. According to Mayor Vadym Lyakh, as of 14:00 on Sunday heat had already been supplied to 254 multi-story buildings. At the same time, utility workers continued work so that heat would reach apartments directly.

Recall that in some cities of Ukraine the heating season for the population began on 28 October. In particular, heating began to be started in Ternopil and Khmelnytskyi. Heat supply to residential buildings was organized in stages. RBC-Ukraine also wrote that in Lviv the heating season began on 30 October. According to Mayor Andrii Sadovyi, connections may take several days, and heat in homes was expected already over the weekend. In Odesa the start-up of boiler houses is tentatively planned for 9 November, although city authorities say they are ready to begin supplying heat earlier if weather conditions worsen.