It’s that time again in Russia – no hot water at homes and apartments for three weeks. Everyone has to take cold showers, even in Moscow.

But those are the lucky ones.

Fun facts.


35 million Russians don't have indoor toilets
47 million don't have hot water at all
29 million don’t have any running water inside their homes
22 million don't have central heating

And it’s fucking cold in winter in Russia!

Lol you idiots will believe anything. They grow livestock in their homes and eat their own babies too.

Moscow authorities have switched off the hot water for annual repairs to the Soviet-era pipeline system, forcing millions of Muscovites to shiver through cold showers, shower at a friend's house - or not shower at all.

"It's not very comfortable but it's not death," 64-year-old Irina Averina said as she headed for the metro after leaving work on a muggy afternoon in Moscow.

Saucepan shower

"Most people boil a saucepan of water and mix it with cold water before pouring it over themselves."

Moscow's population has swelled rapidly to over 10 million since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and its Soviet-built infrastructure groans under the pressure.

"Traditionally, the hot water is shut off for 21 days but in some parts of the capital the disconnection will be much shorter," the Moscow United Energy Company (MOEK) said on its website.

MOEK controls the centralised municipal system that pumps hot water around Moscow.

Muscovites have adapted to living for a few weeks each year without hot water although accidents happen.

The death of the much-loved Soviet actor Anatoly Papanov in August 1987 was blamed on the lack of hot water. The 64-year-old died of a heart attack while taking a cold shower.

Other tactics

Tactics for dealing without hot water also include dousing yourself in cheap aftershave or perfume - noticeable on Moscow's close, stuffy metro system - and showering at friends' houses.

"We just organise parties at houses with hot water," 16-year-old Tanya Lekvich said walking alongside her friend.

Other cities across Russia also switch off the hot water supplies and although the number of households which own water boilers has increased most people in a country where the average salary per month is about $700 still do not own one.

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Even though this happens every year and the Moscow United Energy Company (MOEK) puts the schedule on its website.

You Russian paradise shills just keep getting lamer.

Come on, comrade…Russia is a post- Soviet shithole where the average salary is < $1000/month.

It's true, I have experienced this myself. It's rather a quirk, nobody really cares, people are used to it. Cold showers can do wonders to your body anyway. Europe will know, soon.

Yup lol. And unlike Moscovites who get hot water and heat in the winter at prices unseen in the west EVER, only the rich will escape what's coming in Europe.

“ Tactics for dealing without hot water also include dousing yourself in cheap aftershave or perfume - noticeable on Moscow's close, stuffy metro system”

I’ll bet that gets fragrant, packed into an unairconditioned subway car at rush hour on a humid August day after work.

That’s right. Cheap because of socialist government subsidies, just like the cheap subsidized gasoline.

Worker’s paradise, comrade.

you dumb bro, all eastern nation operate like this, most of them dont have heating, they have gov heating supplied to appartments and homes.

Once a year those boilers need cleaning, they shut down once a year to clean.

Lol, this
I've lived there, this is all BS

“Nobody really cares” lol

Let's try to survive REAL Russian challenge, which we got every summer at Moscow!

And sewage treatment plants smell like roses in Russia, right comrade?

Yore the idiot. Why the fuck would they lie about it, oh, and
Stfu and drink youre snowe!!!


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No, it does not take three weeks to clean a boiler.

Read the story- it’s for repairing the old Soviet pipes that are leaking and disintegrating.

I really hope the babies in
the incubators are ok

Fun facts there are not even 22 million "people" in the entire plane.

Think man

What plane?

if you jog for 20 minutes into a sweat a freezing cold shower feels good for about 2 minutes. just enough time

One Russian in Four Lacks an Indoor Toilet, One of Many Signs There are Now ‘Four Distinct Russias’

According to a new report by Russia’s state statistical agency, Rosstat, 35 million Russians live in houses or apartments without indoor toilets, 47 million do not have hot water, 29 million don’t have any running water inside their residences, and 22 million do not have central heating (ehorussia.com/new/node/17679).

In fact, only 62.7 percent of the Russian population has the usual accoutrements of modern existence – water in the house, plumbing, heating and gas or electric ranges, Rosstat says, a fact that must seem incredible to those who visit only Moscow or St. Petersburg but a fact of life for those who lives beyond the ring roads of the capitals.

Russian blogger Oleg Borovsky says that the image many have of Russia as one unified country is wrong. “In Russia today, there are practically no cities except for Moscow. Even St. Petersburg is beginning to recall places in distant regions, half-abandoned settlements, and aging infrastructure.

With regard to other “cities,” he continues, there is “nothing to say: there degradation and decline are obvious literally to the unaided eye. It is sufficient to go 50 versts from Moscow and you will see that there the snow isn’t cleaned from the streets (even in Moscow oblast!) let alone all the rest” of the trash.

“In the provinces, the ordinary man is a nonentity. And any attempt to achieve something often will end with big problems for him. In the best case, he won’t get what he hopes for; in the worst, he risks his freedom or even his life,” Borovsky continues. As a result, those who can leave these places do.

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And when you haven’t been out for a run in the morning and you want to shower before going to work?

You know why Russians haven't lost a war? They don't cry about lack of hot showers and whatnot.

THey also don't cover their sidewalks with poop despite the alleged lack of toilets.

Helloo Afghanistan, comrade.

Also, the Crimean War, Russo-Japanese, Finnish Civil War, Latvian War of Independence, Estonian War of Independence, Lithuanian-Soviet War, Georgian-Ossetian Conflict, Polish Civil War, Spanish Civil War, World War 1 and the First Chechen War.

Gaslight on, comrade…

Why WTF?

You didn’t already know that Russia is a shithole country, parasitized by wealthy, elite oligarchs that control all the wealth?

The peasants don’t need heat in the winter or a pot to piss in.

I don't know about that but I had to do a four day business trip to Moscow six years ago. My hotel had hot water, but the people in the office I had to work in didn't it smelled like a complex mixture of rose oil, Febreze, butt cracks, cheap after shave, dirty socks and armpits.

Found this article that is pretty accurate from my limited experience there:

There is something uncanny about smells in Russia. Not just the musty vapors that arise from the unwashed or improperly deodorized metro rider next to you. Stink is just a fact of metropolitan life. It’s the supposed “good” smells that are the most troublesome. Walking down a metro platform makes you an open target for a waft of strong perfume from Russian women. Their faux scent can be so strong that you wonder if they bathe in eau de Cologne or carry bottles of it in their enormous handbags for quarterly douses. But even the strong stench of cheap perfume is somewhat normal . . .

What isn’t “normal” is the plethora of scented toilet paper, tissue and overly scented soaps and lotions. When I first got to Moscow three weeks ago, one of the first trips to the market was to purchase a package of toilet paper. Toilet paper here is a serious purchase. One must find a brand that doesn’t feel like cardboard and doesn’t disintegrate on touch. The three-ply, bouncy, thick and fluffy rolls that populate the shelves at Target (or whatever might be your favorite American box store) just don’t exist. The Charmin squeeze test is an essential practice when making your choice. What I didn’t expect and discovered when I got home is that the toilet paper is scented. That’s right, scented. In fact, the vast majority of the asswipe has a manufactured smell added to it. There is paper in vanilla, strawberry, some kind of flower smell, and an assortment of “fresh” smells. Now why the hell would some one want scented toilet paper? Especially if its just going to be used to wipe the smelliest thing humans produce. Am I missing something and the paper also serves as air freshener? And what about concerns of chemical irritation?

The same goes with tissue. I bought one of those ten packs of tissue paper unaware that it has “Aroma” stamped on the front. I didn’t notice because I didn’t look. I didn’t look because I didn’t think to. Now I get a scent of fake strawberry every time I blow my nose.

Smell, it seems, is cultural. I already discovered that this is the case for taste. For example, in America everything has more sugar–yogurt, juice, ice cream, cake, chocolate–than its equivalents elsewhere. Apparently, in Russia products have more smell. It is not Russian companies that are selling products with more smell. International corporations like Kleenex, Dove et al, are producing scented items for a particular Russian market. For example, I brought a bottle of Dove “Go Fresh” cucumber and green tea body wash from the States. The other day I bought another Dove “Go Fresh” at my local market. The same brand, same bottle (though the Russian version is smaller. This is another difference: Americans like their products BIG.). Totally different strength of smell. The American version is a slight fake cucumber and green tea aroma. The Russian version pierces your lungs to the point of choking.

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Boiled cabbage, vodka, Botox and Axe Eau d’Novichok Body Spray.

The highest concentration of people in America without running water at all is in Alaska and the four corners region of Arizona, which is where Navaho nation is located.

Many places have no running water at all simply because it is to cold.

Last Edited by Feathery on 06/25/2022 07:37 PM