Going to Moscow for this summer's FIFA World Cup? Check to see if you'll have any hot water.
Source: Meduza
Are you traveling to Moscow for this summer’s FIFA World Cup? You might not know this, but water heating is centralized in Russian cities, and there’s a chance that your accommodations will only have cold running water. The Moscow United Energy Company has an online service where you can look up your address and find out when the hot water service is scheduled to be unavailable.
There’s one snag: you’ve got to enter the address in Russian, and you need to type it out, without copy-pasting the text. Is that annoyingly cumbersome? Of course! Have a great time in Moscow.