Akademichesky tops the list of Yekaterinburg districts by the number of fare evaders.

Akademichesky has become a district of Yekaterinburg where passengers are less willing to pay for rides on public transportation. This was reported to the 66.Ru portal by Nikita Ukhin, director of the Center for Transport Management.

The founder of UGMK became almost $5 billion richer.

Iskander Makhmudov, founder of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC), became $4.75 billion richer in 2025. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index publishes data on the net worth of Russian businessmen. According to the international ranking, Makhmudov showed one of the most significant increases in net worth in 2025 among Russian billionaires. His wealth increased by $4.75 billion, reaching $7.88 billion. "This result makes him second in the country in terms of growth after Alisher Usmanov (a shareholder in Metalloinvest, +$6.04 billion)," Ura.Ru writes, citing Bloomberg. Pavel Durov also showed a significant increase in capital, adding $3.38 billion over the year. His net worth is estimated at $14.4 billion. Meanwhile, the net worth of Tatyana Kim, founder of Wildberries, increased by $515 million, reaching $7.89 billion.

"They were dared": details emerge about the deaths of teenagers in a private house in a horrific fire near Serov

Details have emerged about the tragedy in the "Sovkhoz Yubileyny" cottage settlement near Serov, where 14-year-old Andrey and 12-year-old Polina died. Recall that a fire there completely destroyed a summer house and nearly took the lives of several other teenagers.

Yekaterinburg ice swimmers held a New Year's swim in an ice hole.

Yekaterinburg’s "walruses" held a New Year’s swim in an ice hole on Lake Shuvakish. Alexander Sazhin, a member of the "White Bear" ice-swimming club, told the Ura.Ru agency that it is their long-standing tradition.

A new enclosure will be built at the Yekaterinburg Zoo.

By 2027, a new enclosure for endangered Amur tigers will be built at the Yekaterinburg Zoo. It will be located on the site where amusement rides used to be. - We removed the rides.

A woman from Yekaterinburg, wearing only a robe and slippers, disappeared on New Year's Eve.

In Yekaterinburg, 32-year-old Angela Zhosan mysteriously disappeared during the New Year. She was wearing only a blue bathrobe and house slippers. This was reported in an official bulletin by the search-and-rescue team LizaAlert.

Father Frosts rode through the center of Yekaterinburg in bathtubs.

Two Ded Morozes rode through the center of Yekaterinburg in bathtubs. Eyewitnesses filmed the convoy on video. The footage was published by the Telegram channel zloy_ekb. One was wearing a blue fur coat, the other a red one.

A fake claiming a mass importation of migrants and their conscription into military service was circulated in Sverdlovsk Oblast — document.

A forged document allegedly signed by Governor Denis Pasler has begun circulating in Sverdlovsk Oblast about the mass recruitment of labor migrants to the region for a personnel reserve and for enlistment in the ranks of the Russian Armed Forces.

Security forces detained a young man who set fire to the former military recruitment office in Yekaterinburg.

Officers of the Sverdlovsk directorate of the FSB detained a young man on New Year's Eve who, on December 31, set fire to a former military recruitment office.

Meteorologists have said what the weather will be like in January in Sverdlovsk Oblast and Yekaterinburg.

The Russian Hydrometeorological Center said that the average temperature in January in Sverdlovsk Oblast is expected to be near normal. That means about -14 to -16 °C, and in the far north of the oblast -17 to -19 °C.

A building in Yekaterinburg that previously housed a military recruitment center was set on fire.

In Yekaterinburg, a pavilion that had previously housed a military recruitment point was set on fire. The blaze occurred in the area of the intersection of Vostochnaya and Kuybysheva.

A resident of Sverdlovsk Oblast won more than 300 million rubles.

A resident of Sverdlovsk Oblast won 333,333,333 rubles in the Stoloto lottery. He shared the jackpot with residents of Tyumen and Novosibirsk Oblasts.

Sverdlovsk police prevented any incidents at holiday venues on New Year's Eve.

On December 31, 14 events celebrating the New Year were held in 10 settlements in Sverdlovsk Oblast, attended by about 22,000 people.

The plane bound for Saint Petersburg made an emergency landing at Koltsovo.

A Nordwind passenger aircraft operating flight N4-322 from Novokuznetsk to St. Petersburg made an emergency landing in Yekaterinburg on January 1. This was reported by the flight-tracking service Flightradar24.