OREANDA-NEWS. August 16, 2013. Preparation works for the autumn-winter season must go in full pace. At present, preparation works of housing and communal services of Ukraine for the heating season are made by 75%. This was started by Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov at a meeting of the Government.

“Best paces of preparation of boiler are in Vinnytsya, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Zakarpatya, Ternopil, Rivne, Kharkiv region and the city of Sevastopol,” PM noted.

133 000 houses, 15 000 schools and 11 000 kindergartens and 5 300 hospitals are prepared for the winter. Moreover, 1070 kilometers of water supply networks and 424 kilometers of sewer networks are repaired.

It has been procured nearly 4.5 million tons of coal and reserves of liquid fuel in the amount of about 59 000 tons created.

Mykola Azarov pointed that in addition to road machinery for snow removal 93 thousand units of entrenching tools will be prepared and purchased more than a million tons of reagents: "It is very good, especially considering the last winter."

The Prime Minister also said that the Ministry of Regional Development, Housing, Construction and Communal Services has created four mobile teams to check in regions of the actual state of preparation of housing and social facilities for the autumn-winter period.