A doctor reminded how to properly immerse oneself during Epiphany.

On January 19, all Orthodox Christians celebrate the Baptism of the Lord. On that day church services are held and the water is blessed. But the clergy consider plunging into an ice hole without taking part in the services or receiving communion a popular pastime.

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Residents of Akademichesky got stuck in a huge traffic jam. This morning, January 16, traffic jams formed on Wilhelm de Gennin Street in the Akademichesky district. As a result, public transport is running about half an hour late, the Yekaterinburg Department of Transport reported. 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%. The husband who ordered an acid attack on his wife was identified as the leader of a Yekaterinburg organized crime group. Journalists in Yekaterinburg identified the man detained on Wednesday on suspicion of organizing an acid attack on his ex‑wife as Nikolai Ermakov, the leader of one of the organized crime groups. Workers in Nevyansk asked Pasler to protect their ELZA plant from abuse of power. In Nevyansk, employees of the local electric motor plant recorded a video appeal to the governor of the Sverdlovsk Region, Denis Pasler. In it they complained about pressure on their enterprise from the court and court bailiffs, Kommersant‑Ural reports. In the Urals, a defendant accused of pedophilia failed to appear in court for the sentencing. The convict, who had been evading serving a sentence for a serious crime, was detained yesterday, January 14, in Sverdlovsk Region by operatives of the Federal Penitentiary Service (GUFSIN), the press service of the regional penitentiary department reported. In just one month the "NOT DARK" festival will take place in Uralmash Summer Park. On February 14–15, 2026, 32 light installations from more than 40 artists will light up Uralmash Summer Park: Samarkand (Uzbekistan), Yekaterinburg, Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Perm, Chelyabinsk, Sergiev Posad — all coming together to create a space where the personal and the collective flow into one another through light.