Terrorist attacks, accidents and corruption. The Transport Investigation Department summed up the results of 2025.

The Sverdlovsk Investigative Department for Transport investigated one-third more crimes in 2025 than in 2024. The number of serious and especially serious crimes increased by 45%, and corruption-related crimes by 54%.

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The State Traffic Inspectorate announced the number of fatalities on roads in the Sverdlovsk Region during the New Year's holidays. The State Traffic Inspectorate of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region, on the first working day after the long New Year holidays, summed up its work over those days. About 400 traffic police officers ensured road traffic safety each day, said the head of the Road Safety Promotion Department, Police Captain Galina Kravchenko. The number of poor people in Sverdlovsk Oblast has decreased. In Sverdlovsk Oblast, the share of residents with incomes below the poverty line is decreasing. By the end of 2024, about 6% of the population fell into this category, compared with 8.6% in 2021. In Yekaterinburg, teenagers lured a girl out of her home and brutally beat her. In Yekaterinburg, a crowd of teenagers beat a 15-year-old schoolgirl; the victim sustained injuries. This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region. A minor will be tried by a military court in Yekaterinburg for preparing a terrorist attack on the Sverdlovsk Railway. The Ural Transport Prosecutor’s Office has referred to court a criminal case concerning the preparation to commit a terrorist act on the Sverdlovsk Railway, the press service of the supervisory authority reports. During the cold snap, the residents of Bogdanovich were left without heating. In Bogdanovich, due to a major utility failure, residents were left without heating in -35°C temperatures. Utility workers are currently dealing with the aftermath. This was reported by Mayor Oleg Neyfeld.

In the new season of the show "The Voice," Sverdlovsk residents will be able to "root for" Nizhny Tagil. The new season of the vocal show "The Voice" will air on Channel One on January 23. There won't be any contestants from Yekaterinburg this season, but there are still people to root for.