The mayor of Yekaterinburg announced the construction of new metro stations.

In Yekaterinburg, the tallest RMK slide in Russia and the ice rink are being closed. Frosts have returned to the Urals, and along with them Sverdlovsk residents will be deprived of their fun winter activities. Slides and ice rinks will be closed for at least three days. Thus, from January 21 the operation of the huge RMK slide and the rink at this location has been suspended until Friday, January 23. In Yekaterinburg, the court handed down a "Solomonic decision" in the case of the tram driver who maimed a passenger. In Yekaterinburg, a court sentenced a female tram driver whose actions caused a tram passenger to lose a leg. The accident occurred on September 13, 2025, at the "Verkh-Isetsky Market" stop. "We lost Nadezhda." The 62-year-old pensioner who went missing on New Year's Eve was found in the Urals. The search for 62-year-old Nadezhda Shimko has ended in Yekaterinburg. The pensioner disappeared on New Year's Eve, December 31. On December 31 the woman was planning to visit a relative but did not reach her destination. The cost of constructing the interchange at "Kalina" exceeded 9 billion rubles. In Yekaterinburg, the cost of construction of the interchange near "Kalina" has risen to 9 billion 88 million rubles. The corresponding information appeared on the State Procurement portal. The deputy general director of the Ural technopark was detained on corruption charges. In Chelyabinsk, a criminal case has been opened against Sergey Nevrov, deputy general director of LLC Technopark "Traktorozavodsky". This was reported by the regional FSB. In Sverdlovsk Oblast, a bank employee stole 7 million rubles from clients. The Leninsky District Court of Nizhny Tagil sentenced a former bank employee who stole 7 million rubles from the bank and its clients to two years in prison, the press service of the Sverdlovsk courts reported.