The head chef who contaminated a graduation banquet with salmonella was sentenced in Yekaterinburg (PHOTO)

On Tuesday, November 18, the Kirovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg delivered a guilty verdict against Richmond Rest LLC's head chef, Pavel Grachev. Numerous sanitary violations committed by the defendant resulted in mass food poisoning of guests at the banquet.

A female passenger was taken to a hospital in Yekaterinburg from the bus that hit a pedestrian.

Two people were hospitalized as a result of a crash involving a bus that occurred this afternoon, November 18, on 8 Marta Street in Yekaterinburg. This was reported on Tuesday by the Directorate of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region.

Funds were allocated in the Sverdlovsk Oblast budget for the development of the Yekaterinburg metro.

The Sverdlovsk Region's 2026 draft budget allocates 1 billion rubles in subsidies to the Yekaterinburg administration for the development of the public transport system, including the metro.

The driver of a Lexus died on the Yekaterinburg Ring Road after crashing into a guardrail.

A fatal accident occurred today at the 90th kilometer of the EKAD (toward the M-5 "Ural" highway). The driver of a Lexus was killed, the State Traffic Inspectorate of Russia for Sverdlovsk Oblast reports.

"The children miss him very much." What others say about the caregiver who used soap to stop a child from swearing.

The story about a bar of soap that kindergarten teacher Tatyana Klimovets allegedly shoved into the mouth of a 6-year-old pupil at Kindergarten No. 81 in Yekaterinburg took an unexpected turn.

A high-speed rail line will be built between Yekaterinburg and Moscow.

RZD plans to build a high-speed rail line that will connect Moscow and Yekaterinburg. According to RIA Novosti, the project for the new line was presented at the "Transport of Russia" forum.

A foreign-made car with Sverdlovsk license plates ended up under a truck in Tatarstan.

Two people in a car bearing license plates from Sverdlovsk Oblast were victims of a traffic accident that occurred last night in the Tukaevsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Do you know what the inside of a bear's den looks like?

How a bear's den is arranged — in a zoo or in the wild — remains a question that interests many. At the same time, most people have no idea what it looks like on the inside, because such shelters are almost never seen directly.

A kindergarten teacher in Yekaterinburg shoved soap into a child's mouth for saying a 'bad word'.

At kindergarten No. 81 in Yekaterinburg, a teacher shoved a bar of soap into the mouth of a 6-year-old child. This was reported by the EAN news agency. As the boy’s mother told EAN, the teacher, Tatyana Klimovets, heard from other children in the group that her son had said a bad word.

"Plasticine Crow 2.0." Koltsovo published a "knitted" cartoon about its work

The Telegram channel of Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport released an unusual video about its work yesterday. All the images in it look as if they were sewn from felt or knitted from wool.

Svetlana Uchaykina, the Minister of Culture of the Sverdlovsk Region, is leaving her post.

The Minister of Culture of the Sverdlovsk Region, Svetlana Uchaykina, has submitted her resignation. Svetlana Nikolaevna confirmed this information to journalists. The official reason is said to be that she has reached the maximum age for civil service, reports RBC.

Health inspectors shut down a butter-packaging workshop in Yekaterinburg for a month.

The operation of the workshop for packaging butter and spreads has been suspended for 30 days in Yekaterinburg, the Office of Rospotrebnadzor of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region reports.

The Hong Kong flu has arrived in Russia.

Influenza incidence continues to increase in Russia; 2,900 cases were detected over the week, Interfax reports, citing Rospotrebnadzor.

A reckless elderly driver was killed in a crash near Verkhnyaya Pyshma.

An elderly driver was killed in a three-vehicle crash on Monday, November 17, at the 2nd kilometer of the Verkhnyaya Pyshma–Sredneuralsk road, the Directorate of the Russian State Traffic Inspectorate for the Sverdlovsk Region reports.