Heating plants (general article)

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HEATING PLANTS (heat electric power plants) are stations generating electricity and providing heat and hot running water to businesses and residential houses. The first attempts of a comprehensive approach to the problem of generating electricity and heat were carried out in the early 20th century. In 1908, under the supervision of Professor V. V. Dmitriev, a heating plant was set up at Peter the Great Memorial Hospital. The 1920s saw the setup of a system of centralised heating supply through a network of heating plants. On November 24, 1924, heat from Steam Flow Plant № 3 was received in the building at 96 Fontanka Embankment. In 1931, an independent subdivision - a heating network - was created in the structure of Electric Current Trust. In 1932, the first industrial heating station was set up at Vera Slutskaya Factory (Heating Station No. 7). By 1941, 420 residential, public and communal buildings were connected to the centralised heat supply system, the annual production of heat amounted to 930,000 Gigawatts, the length of the heating network was 70 kilometres. During the siege of 1941-44, the centralised heat supply stopped the reconstruction of heating networks started in the autumn of 1943. The general scheme of the city heating system was developed by 1956. By 1967, all city electric power stations were included in the system of heat supply and renamed into heating plants. In 2001, Leningrad heating plants generated some 23,526,000 Gigawatts of heat providing heating to 55% of users (a total of 12,000 buildings, of which 50% were apartment houses).

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V. G. Avdeev. Dmitriev Vladimir Vladimirovich
Slutskaya Vera Klementievna (Berta Bronislavovna)
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 96
Куцко Е. А. Теплофикация Ленинграда // Городское хозяйство. Л., 1957
Санжаров С. А. Тепло и свет // Городское хозяйство и строительство Ленинграда за 50 лет. Л., 1967 Peter The Great Clinical Hospital
Siege of 1941-44