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.

Sverdlovsk residents were advised to discard dangerous New Year's salads.

The regional Rospotrebnadzor reminded Sverdlovsk residents about safe storage times for New Year’s salads and ready-made dishes. Rospotrebnadzor officials warned that salads containing mayonnaise and mixed ingredients are especially dangerous to store for long periods.

The subsistence minimum in Sverdlovsk Oblast has increased.

As of January 1, 2026, the subsistence minimum in the Sverdlovsk Region was increased by 6.8%. The corresponding decree was adopted by the regional government, the Department of Information Policy of the Sverdlovsk Region (DIP) reported.

"I was beaten for demanding that they produce their documents": law enforcement officers stormed the Yekaterinburg bar "Ruki Vverkh"

On Tuesday, December 30, law enforcement officers stormed into the Yekaterinburg bar "Ruki Vverkh". According to patrons, three white UAZ "Patriot" vehicles pulled up to the establishment, from which people in camouflage emerged.