Sources and Streams

Abstract

A successful solution of any problem including the most complex and unusual one is directly proportional to deeper and more profound study and comprehension of factors and causes that determine operation of the object under study. This truth requires no further arguments. But it is worth repeating when EKO addresses questions of maintaining stable and effective operation of heat supply systems in Russian cities. The present issue of the journal reviews the problems of actual conditions of such systems through examples of Novosibirsk (the paper by S. A. Bukharov and A. P. Shibanov) although most of them are common for most towns and cities of our country. In order to better understand today’s problems one must learn how these systems appeared and how they managed to achieve required goals and objectives.