Yekaterinburg authorities refused the Georgian society permission to install a bust of Stalin.

      The Toponymy Commission removed from consideration the question of installing a bust of Joseph Stalin in Yekaterinburg. This was reported by City Duma deputy Dmitry Sergin.

      The idea of installing a bust of the Generalissimo was brought to the authorities of the Ural capital by public activists — the regional "Georgian Society Sakartvelo (the Georgian self-name used by Georgians — note by Uralweb)", the Stalin Center and the "International Union of Diasporas". They sent the appeal to the city administration.

      Among the proposed locations for the bust were the square in front of the ODO (District Officers' House) and Kultury Boulevard (next to the Madrid hotel building) in Uralmash.

      The matter was submitted for consideration to the City Duma's Toponymy Commission. The meeting took place on Friday, November 14.

      — After heated debates at the Toponymy Commission opinions were split — they were categorical and diametrically opposed. I believe that one thing we absolutely do not need at the moment is confrontation in society. Apparently, now is not the time, Sergin said.

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In Asbest, people will say goodbye to a medic who took her own life after being deceived by scammers. In Asbest, a farewell for lab assistant Marina Shmykova will be held on Saturday, reports "KP‑Yekaterinburg." The woman took her own life after falling victim to phone scammers.

The Yekaterinburg mayor’s office said it had installed new ones to replace most of the “demolished stops.” The Telegram channel "Yekaterinburg. Main", close to the city administration, mocked the PR of the local branch of the New People party on the sensitive issue of "demolished bus stops".

November weather in Yekaterinburg has come very close to the 2013 record. On Saturday, November 15, the weather in Yekaterinburg closely approached the 2013 temperature record. The daily temperature record for November 15 was set in the Ural capital in 2013 and stood at +6.3 °C.

A journalist from Yekaterinburg published a conversation with the father who sued the young teacher. A Yekaterinburg-based journalist and former war correspondent for URA.RU, Andrey Guselnikov, was able to speak by phone with the father of an eighth-grader after the incident that led to the young physics teacher Sergey Perminov being effectively blacklisted.