Yekaterinburg turned into a winter wonderland for a couple of hours. But it ended quickly.

For one evening Yekaterinburg, according to the weather, finally turned into a real winter fairy tale. The long-awaited snow began to fall in the city. The bad news is that by the morning of November 29 the snow had turned back into mud.

In Yekaterinburg they've come up with a way to make everyone pay for public transport.

Fare payment on public transport could be made completely automatic — money would be deducted as soon as a passenger boards. This option was proposed by the president of the association "Bus Lines of the Country," Boris Loran, at the "Cities of Russia" forum in Yekaterinburg.

Tram traffic in central Yekaterinburg has stopped.

This afternoon, November 28, trams came to a halt in Yekaterinburg near the "Circus" stop. The city's Department of Transport reported this. The cause was a tram malfunction.

An 8-year-old child was found in a Ural "rehab" that was raided by security forces.

Yekaterinburg media report that an 8-year-old child was found in a private rehabilitation center for minors that law enforcement officers had visited the previous day.

The court reduced the sentence for a man from Yekaterinburg who raped his 11-year-old daughter.

In Yekaterinburg, a verdict was pronounced for the second time for furniture assembler Mikhail, accused of raping his 11-year-old daughter. The man came under investigation as early as July 2022.

A woman from Sverdlovsk who worked at a Wildberries pickup point won a court ruling recognizing her as its employee.

A resident of Nizhny Tagil obtained a court ruling recognizing her as an employee of Wildberries and granting the associated labor rights. In addition, the court ordered that she be paid the compensation due under the law.

A Yekaterinburg resident lost a lawsuit against "Vkusno — i tochka", which had refused to serve a customer.

A resident of Yekaterinburg tried to recover compensation from the fast-food restaurant “Vkusno i Tochka” for being refused service and lost in court. This was reported on Friday by the joint press service of the courts of the Sverdlovsk Region.

The media screen on Vaynera will be temporarily taken down.

The media screen on Vaynera Street will be dismantled, reworked, and reinstalled. But first, Mayor Alexey Orlov promised to consult with residents. In a conversation with @66.RU, the city head admitted that the media screen has both supporters and haters.

"A little creepy." The mayor of Yekaterinburg rode in a driverless taxi.

Alexey Orlov, the head of Yekaterinburg, took a ride in a driverless taxi while in China. Orlov admitted that riding without a driver felt creepy to him, URA.RU reports.

'Golden Apple' will 'rejuvenate' the square near UrGEU.

The beautification of the square near the Ural State University of Economics (UrGEU) is being carried out by beauty retailer Golden Apple.

Lychees and passion fruit were delivered to the Urals for the first time.

One tonne of lychee and 29 tonnes of passion fruit were imported to the Urals for the first time, the press service of the Ural Customs Directorate reported. The lychee consignment was worth 289 thousand rubles, the passion fruit — more than 6 million rubles.

Russia's first driverless tram ran between Yekaterinburg and Verkhnyaya Pyshma.

In Sverdlovsk Oblast, testing has begun of the driverless tram "Lvenok" on Russia's first intermunicipal line, Yekaterinburg — Verkhnyaya Pyshma.

A transport expert said it is impossible to build an above-ground metro in Yekaterinburg.

It will be extremely difficult for Yekaterinburg to implement a surface metro project because of the large number of freight trains and long-distance trains on the already existing railway tracks.

A female courier who stole several million from pensioners was detained in Yekaterinburg.

A woman from Pervouralsk was detained in Uralmash on suspicion of stealing several million rubles from pensioners. This was reported by the press group of the Yekaterinburg Ministry of Internal Affairs.