The former director of Yekaterinburg's Gortrans is accused of abuse of official powers.

      Details have emerged in the criminal case against the former head of Yekaterinburg Gortrans, Sergey Nugaev. It turned out he gave his wife a gift at the company's expense: he sold her a Hyundai Elantra written off the company's books for 30,000 rubles.

      "The market price of such a car is many times higher. In addition, it had a nice license plate '007' (priced from 300,000 rubles in online listings), which the family transferred to one of their vehicles. Many people at the company knew, but were afraid to say anything," one of the employees told the E1.RU portal.

      The Accounts Chamber of Yekaterinburg reported that, following joint work with the prosecutor's office and the preliminary investigation, a criminal case was opened on a charge of "abuse of official powers." According to the agency, auditors identified a number of violations in the work of the EMUP "City Transport" in the disposal of property, procurement and accounting.

      Recall that Nugaev was detained on suspicion of receiving a bribe for servicing buses. In 2014 Sergey Nugaev was appointed acting director of the "Tram and Trolleybus Administration," which a few years later was merged with the Municipal Association of Bus Enterprises into Gortrans. Previously Nugaev headed a branch of the "Oktyabrsky Trolleybus Depot."

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The Yekaterinburg district will be left without trams due to rail repairs. Today, October 18, trams will stop running at ZhBI. Service will be closed until 05:00 on October 27, Gortrans reported. Trams will stop running from the "Ural Federal University" stop to the terminus "40 Years of the Komsomol" in both directions due to tram track repairs on Syromolotova Street. "The track repair will be carried out on the section from Sirenevy Boulevard to the '40 Years of the Komsomol' station," Gortrans noted.

The Yekaterinburg–Tyumen highway will open in 2026. Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin said in an interview with Rossiya 24 that the federal M-12 "Vostok" highway, which connects Moscow and Yekaterinburg, is planned to be extended to Tyumen by 2026.

The Yekaterinburg mayor's office listed the documents that must be presented to travel for free. The authorities of Yekaterinburg clarified the list of documents that Yekaterinburg residents aged 7 to 18 must present in order to ride city buses, trolleybuses and trams for free.

At Vtorchermet a teenager was mistaken for a train surfer and had his jaw broken. In Yekaterinburg, unidentified people began catching and beating teenagers who had been terrorizing tram drivers in Vtorchermet. A Yekaterinburg resident told the E1.RU portal that on October 5 his son was attacked and his jaw was broken.

Scammers forced a pensioner from Sverdlovsk to sell her apartment. She communicated with them via MAX. Scammers forced a pensioner from Sverdlovsk to sell her apartment. She communicated with them via MAX.

The head of the Sverdlovsk police opened a new police station in Nizhny Tagil — photo In Nizhny Tagil, the new building of Police Department No. 20 at 48 Proselochnaya Street was ceremonially opened. The ceremony was attended by the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Sverdlovsk Oblast, Police Lieutenant General Alexander Meshkov; his deputy, Major General Pyotr Krivegin; the head of the Tagil garrison of the Department of Internal Affairs, Colonel Ibragim Abdulkadyrov; the mayor, Vladislav Pinaev; representatives of the Public Council, police personnel, and honored guests.