Yekaterinburg has begun to celebrate the "Avtomobilist" reaching the playoffs.

      The hockey club "Avtomobilist" has secured its participation in the playoffs ahead of schedule. This event is set to be widely celebrated in Yekaterinburg.

      According to the results of the KHL regular season, the "drivers" took fourth place in the Eastern Conference standings.

      The first round of the playoffs starts on March 23. It will be a home match against Ufa's "Salavat Yulaev," and the meeting will take place at the UGMK Arena, reports "Ъ-Ural."

      The current holder of the Gagarin Cup is Yaroslavl's "Lokomotiv," reminds RIA Novosti.

      As reported by the press service of "Avtomobilist," in the Year of Ural Rock, the club has chosen the slogan "Rock chord of this spring!" for the playoffs.

      As part of this "collaboration," architectural lighting in the club's colors—red and white—has already been turned on at "iconic" buildings in the city center.

      In the Yekaterinburg metro, the voices of players will be broadcast at the stations. The media screen on Vainera Street has also joined in.

      At the metro station "Ploshchad 1905 Goda," a thematic photo exhibition combining rock music and Yekaterinburg hockey will open, and on Friday, March 27, there will be a live concert featuring rock hits and hockey anthems.

      On Monday, March 30, branded club cars will drive through the central streets of the city with musical accompaniment.

Другие Новости Екатеринбурга (ЕКБ166)

Two people died in a fire at a private bathhouse in Khimash. A fire with human casualties occurred on Saturday, March 21, in Yekaterinburg in the Khimmash microdistrict. A private bathhouse, outbuildings, and a passenger car on Dagestanskaya Street were burning, reports the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Sverdlovsk region.

A live broadcast of the concert by the South Korean group BTS was interrupted at a cinema in Yekaterinburg. The online broadcast of the concert by the South Korean music group BTS did not take place in Yekaterinburg. The concert was supposed to be shown at the "Greenwich Cinema" theater on Saturday evening, March 21, reports "KP-Yekaterinburg."

The Sverdlovsk farmer was issued a directive to improve soil fertility. Signs of violations of land legislation were discovered by inspectors on a plot of land owned by a farmer from Sverdlovsk. This concerns agricultural land with a total area of 263.3 hectares, located in the Nizhny Tagil district.

A two-apartment residential building burned down in VIZ on Friday evening. A private two-apartment residential house and outbuildings burned down on Friday evening in Yekaterinburg in the VIZ microdistrict. The report of the fire on Levshinsky Lane was received by firefighters at 10:51 PM on Friday, March 20.

The animal exhibition was closed in Greenwich after two months of operation due to violations. The animal exhibition "Zoolandia," which had been running for two months at the Greenwich shopping center in Yekaterinburg, was closed due to identified violations on Friday, March 20.

A two-apartment residential building burned down in VIZ on Friday evening. A private two-apartment residential house and outbuildings burned down on Friday evening in Yekaterinburg in the VIZ microdistrict. The report of the fire in Levshinsky Lane was received by firefighters at 10:51 PM on Friday, March 20.