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

The head of the public organization "Social Assistance and Support for the Ivdel Mansi," Valery Zenkov, was killed in a multi-vehicle crash on the Ivdel–Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug highway on the evening of January 17. The prosecutor's office found violations by the utilities in Sverdlovsk Oblast. The Prosecutor’s Office of the Sverdlovsk Region identified violations in the operation of the regional Ministry of Energy and Housing and Utilities when posting information about the major repairs of apartment buildings in the GIS Housing and Utilities system. They want to launch direct flights from Yekaterinburg to a resort country on the Persian Gulf. Flights from Yekaterinburg to Oman may be launched soon. The airline Oman Air intends to begin operations at Koltsovo. This was reported by Mikhail Maltsev, head of the Ural Tourism Association. 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. The number of people plunging into the ice hole for Epiphany increased in Sverdlovsk Oblast. In Sverdlovsk Oblast, the number of people wishing to plunge into the Jordan for the Baptism of the Lord has increased significantly. This is evident from the statistics of the regional Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. Minus-40-degree frosts are returning to Sverdlovsk Oblast. As early as tomorrow, January 20, anomalous cold will return to Sverdlovsk Oblast. According to the Ural Hydrometeorological Center, by midweek temperatures in some places are expected to drop to as low as -43 °C.