{"id":129932,"date":"2025-09-11T12:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/129932\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:57:09","slug":"russias-sakha-faces-heating-crisis-amid-budget-shortfalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/129932\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Sakha Faces Heating Crisis Amid Budget Shortfalls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authorities in Russia\u2019s republic of Sakha (Yakutia), one of the coldest inhabited places on Earth, are struggling to launch the heating season due to a lack of funding for utilities, the local media outlet LB Potok reported<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n

The problems are affecting nearly all districts of the vast, sparsely populated region of the Far East, LB Potok reported.<\/p>\n

The situation is most acute in the Verkhnekolymsky district, where snow fell on Tuesday but schools remain unheated. Boilers are operating on backup power, with heating provided for only a few hours in the evening.<\/p>\n

In the settlement of Sangar in the Kobyaysky district, two boiler houses are shut down due to unpaid debts to local utility Sakhaenergo.<\/p>\n

In the Ust-Aldansky district, the start of the heating season has been delayed by a week, while the Olenyok settlement declared a state of emergency on Sept. 4 amid cold weather, despite the season officially starting on Aug. 22.<\/p>\n

Only a third of the required subsidies in the Aldansky district for coal purchases have arrived, leaving enough fuel to last until Nov. 1, local head Alexander Shestopalov said.<\/p>\n

Authorities in the Churapchinsky district advised postponing heating until Oct. 1. Deputy head Rustam Dalinov proposed<\/a> saving money by leaving cultural centers, gyms, administrative offices and other public buildings unheated.<\/p>\n

Regional lawmaker Viktor Fyodorov said utility providers have been allocated 34.9 billion rubles ($374 million) for 2025, against actual needs of 63.1 billion ($746 million).<\/p>\n

Sakha\u2019s budget deficit reached<\/a> 24.4 billion rubles ($288 million) in the first half of 2025 \u2014 nearly 10 times higher than planned, LB Potok reported.<\/p>\n

At the same time, utility tariffs continue to rise.<\/p>\n

Electricity prices increased by 16% from July 1, while heating and hot water rose by 13% and gas by 16%.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Russia continues to export electricity. In the first half of 2025, exports totaled 3.08 billion kilowatt-hours, mainly to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, with Mongolia accounting for around 16% of deliveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities in Russia\u2019s republic of Sakha (Yakutia), one of the coldest inhabited places on Earth, are struggling to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,4977,61387,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-129932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-regions","11":"tag-republic-of-sakha","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}