The Sverdlovsk Railway won the vote for the "Heritage of the Middle Urals" status.

The Sverdlovsk Railway has become the leader in the public vote to be awarded the status "Heritage of the Middle Urals." The Department of Information Policy of the Sverdlovsk Region reports this on its Telegram channel.

In Yekaterinburg, the former DOSAAF dormitory on Voivodina Street has officially been stripped of its status as a cultural heritage site.

The Sverdlovsk Region’s Department for the State Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites has stripped the building of the former DOSAAF dormitory (Voivodina 6) in Yekaterinburg of its monument status, reports URA.RU.

Temperatures will drop to −23°C in Sverdlovsk Oblast.

The thaw will give way to frosts in Sverdlovsk Oblast. Long-awaited snow will also fall. According to the Ural Hydrometeorological Center, in the coming days a North Atlantic cyclone, moving off the Arctic coast, will descend into central Siberia.

A monument to the Russian pilot who repeated Gastello's feat during the Special Military Operation will be unveiled today in the Urals.

At the Preobrazhensky Cemetery in Chelyabinsk today, December 2, a monument will be solemnly unveiled to military pilot and Hero of the Russian Federation Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Antonov, who was killed during the liberation of the Donetsk People's Republic, the EAN agency reports, citing the government of the Chelyabinsk Region.

A gardener from Nizhny Tagil killed and dismembered a friend while drunk.

In Nizhny Tagil last week, a court sent local resident Oleg Laskin to a penal colony for the murder of a friend at a garden plot in June of this year. A routine domestic drinking session ended in a gruesome finale.

At the Yekaterinburg district court, they spoke about a shared past with Maya Plisetskaya.

The Kirovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg and the celebrated ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, whose 100th birthday was marked in Russia on November 20, share biographical details.

Azerbaijani businessman Vidadi Mustafayev was detained in Yekaterinburg.

URA.RU reports, citing its sources close to the security forces, that in Yekaterinburg businessman Vidadi Mustafayev — who, after the arrest of Shykhin Shykhlinski, declared himself the new leader of the Azerbaijani diaspora in the Urals — has been detained.

A former "Dom-2" participant from Yekaterinburg was sentenced for faking a pregnancy.

The Akademichesky District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced former reality-show "Dom-2" participant Yana Makarova to five years in a general-regime penal colony on charges of fraud on an especially large scale.

The news agency URA.RU has a new owner.

Yesterday, December 1, the new owners from the Ridovka holding arrived at the editorial office of the URA.RU news agency in Yekaterinburg. The EAN agency reports this, citing an informed source.

A record amount will be spent on public transportation in Yekaterinburg.

The draft budget for 2026 provides over 16 billion rubles for public transport in Yekaterinburg — that amount is included in the municipal program "Development of the Public Transport System".

In Sverdlovsk Oblast, a man was accused of molesting his young daughter.

In Irbit, an employee of a sausage workshop was accused of sexually abusing his 9-year-old daughter. According to KP-Yekaterinburg, in November 2025 the schoolgirl told friends that her father had been raping her for a year.

New heating rates for residents of Yekaterinburg have been announced.

The cost of thermal energy for residents of Yekaterinburg until the end of the year will be 2,752 rubles including VAT, Signal Ural reports, citing a document.

In Sverdlovsk Oblast, a man was accused of committing a crime against his young daughter.

In Irbit, an employee of a sausage workshop was accused of sexually abusing his 9-year-old daughter. According to KP-Yekaterinburg, in November 2025 the schoolgirl told friends that her father had been raping her for a year.

The driver who ran over and killed a child in Sverdlovsk Oblast was drunk and had no driver's license.

New circumstances have been established in the traffic accident that occurred on the morning of December 1 in Novoutkinsk. There, the driver of a Ford Fusion fatally struck a 14‑year‑old schoolgirl on a pedestrian crossing — it was revealed that the 40‑year‑old driver of the Ford did not have a valid driver's license — its validity had expired.