Our living room. The window at the back opens onto a small deck. Sort of scary deck but we open the windows for air. The heat has been turned on by the city and there are no individual thermostats therefore no way to regualte the temperature. We open windows to get some relief until the smoke gets too thick. The people in the "ger" (means home in Mongolian) district use coal and wood to heat their homes and we get the residue. We understand it gets worse as the winter gets colder.
Yours is about the only apartment that does have shutoff valves on the radiators. They really won't allow much heat adjustment but you can turn them off. We only kept half of them on during the winter. It worked pretty well.
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