A freight train caught fire on the border of Sverdlovsk Oblast and Perm Krai.

Tank cars of a freight train caught fire on the railway section between Sverdlovsk Oblast and Perm Krai, the press service of the Sverdlovsk Railway (SvZhD) reported — on the Shamary–Kordon section of the double-track electrified Perm–Kuzino line of the Sverdlovsk Railway, two tank cars at the rear of the freight train caught fire.

You can get rapid HIV testing on the street in Yekaterinburg.

The mobile HIV testing unit — the AIDS Center’s van with a red ribbon — has been operating in Yekaterinburg for 15 years. Over the next three days it will once again appear on the streets of the Ural capital, the AIDS Center said.

T2 customers can be the first to choose a network name or an emoji instead of the default name.

Mobile operator T2 launched a new service called "Change network name". It allows subscribers to choose a name or emoji that are displayed in the smartphone's status bar instead of the operator's standard name.

In the Urals, an "expeditor" who had agreed to deliver a shipment dumped it and reported it as stolen.

In Sverdlovsk Oblast, a court issued a decision in a civil claim brought by the cargo owner against the freight forwarder. The man agreed to deliver batches of pipeline fittings to another district, but dumped them in the forest and claimed that his cargo had been stolen.

In Yekaterinburg, a mother who "rocked" her infant to death will be tried.

In Yekaterinburg on Thursday, November 20, the trial begins in the criminal case of a mother charged with the involuntary manslaughter of her infant. According to the investigation, in early August of this year the accused, Viktoria Vazhenina, was putting her four-month-old baby to bed at home in the evening while intoxicated.

Contaminated fruit ended up on the shelves of Sverdlovsk stores.

A consignment of imported fruit infested with quarantine pests arrived in Yekaterinburg — 17 tonnes of Iranian kiwifruit and 20 tonnes of Turkish lemons. Despite the violations found, the products were allowed to be sold in stores in the city and the region, the press service of Rosselkhoznadzor reported.

A former security officer was outraged by the sentence against teacher Sergey Perminov.

Vladimir Krupkin, a member of the Public Chamber of Sverdlovsk Oblast, was outraged by the sentence handed down by the Akademichesky District Court of Yekaterinburg to the young physics teacher Sergey Perminov.

A Magnit store burned down as a result of a gas cylinder leak in Surgut.

A fire broke out in an annex to a Magnit store in Surgut (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra), subsequently spreading to the supermarket’s main building, Kommersant‑Ural reports.

The AIDS Center reported how many people were diagnosed with HIV through "street" testing.

Since the beginning of this year, more than 5,000 residents of the Sverdlovsk region have learned their HIV status thanks to rapid testing, the regional AIDS Center said. HIV was detected in the blood of exactly 1% of those tested who did not suspect they were infected.

A 15-year-old girl from the closed town of Zarechny is being sought in Yekaterinburg.

A missing 15-year-old schoolgirl, Kristina Durmanova, from the closed town of Zarechny is being searched for in the Sverdlovsk Region. Two days ago the girl went to Yekaterinburg, leaving her phone at home, writes "KP-Ekaterinburg."

A pathologist-anatomist and Hare Krishna follower who "married" a 12-year-old girl in Yekaterinburg has been sentenced.

In Yekaterinburg, a sentence was handed down to the former head of the pathology department of Children's City Clinical Hospital No. 9, Sergey Okladnikov, who carried out a "marriage ritual" by having sexual intercourse with the 12‑year‑old daughter of a couple he knew.

Koltsovo Airport has introduced special QR codes for passengers.

Koltsovo Airport has introduced special QR codes for passengers.

EMERCOM colonel: The gas explosion on Sibirskaya Street did not occur in the apartment of the Tagil woman who lost her daughter.

A Nizhny Tagil resident, Elena Serbinova, accused of causing the deaths of 11 people in a gas explosion, has shown that one can become an expert whose conclusions the court relies on by mail.

An unusual Russian-style estate is for sale at Shartash.

Not far from Lake Shartash, a two-story cottage built in the Russian style has been put up for sale. The house is being sold for 52 million rubles. On offer is an elegant two-story house made of glued laminated timber, created according to a unique custom design in the style of a contemporary Russian estate.