Three public transport routes will be canceled in Yekaterinburg from February 1.

Three public transport routes in Yekaterinburg will be canceled as of February 1. The corresponding decree has already been signed by Mayor Alexey Orlov. Trolleybus route No. 25, which ran from the Botanicheskaya stop to Akademicheskaya, will no longer run.

Twenty-four violations were found in the operations of the supplier for a Yekaterinburg coffee shop where customers complained of food poisoning.

Twenty-four violations were found in the operations of the supplier for the Yekaterinburg coffee-chain DUO (Dessertkom+ LLC). This was revealed in court, where the question of suspending the company's activities is being decided following complaints of poisoning, the Ura.Ru agency reports.

Food prices have risen again in Sverdlovsk Oblast.

In Sverdlovsk Oblast, prices rose by 0.55% in December 2025 compared with November. At the same time, the press service of the Ural Main Directorate of the Bank of Russia says that annual inflation fell to 7.31%.

A city in the Sverdlovsk region was left without heating at the height of an abnormal cold spell.

Kushva has been placed on heightened alert. Today 11,000 residents are without heating and hot water.

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In Sverdlovsk Oblast, a crypto-mining farm was discovered that stole electricity worth 1 billion.

In Nizhny Tagil, the operation of a large illegal mining farm was stopped; the damage is estimated at nearly 1 billion rubles. The complex was located on the premises of a former industrial enterprise.

A Ural Airlines pilot commented on the demand to pay 119 million for landing a plane in a field.

Ural Airlines pilot Sergey Belov, who landed a plane with 167 passengers in a field, was demanded to acknowledge his mistake. He told Ura.Ru this, commenting on reports that a lawsuit for 119 million rubles had been filed against him.

A Yekaterinburg court refused to return to a pensioner the apartment that had been sold under the "Dolina scheme".

The Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg refused to return an apartment to a pensioner which she had sold in order to give the money to scammers. This was reported by the joint press service of the courts of Sverdlovsk Region.

Yekaterinburg plans to set up new dedicated lanes for trams and buses.

In Yekaterinburg this year they plan to separate 48 kilometers of tram tracks and 8.4 kilometers of dedicated bus lanes. This follows from a resolution approved by Mayor Alexey Orlov.

Astronomers at UrFU have made a breakthrough discovery in space.

Scientists from the Laboratory of Astrochemistry at Ural Federal University made an important discovery: they found "laughing gas" — nitrous oxide (N₂O) — in interstellar ices.

Ural Airlines officially warned of deviations in the schedule

Ural Airlines on possible schedule deviations. It’s all due to anomalous frosts that have hit the Urals. In Yekaterinburg the air temperature fell to −32°C, and at night the temperature on the runway was recorded at −37°C. Arrivals and departures of aircraft to/from Koltsovo Airport are currently operating normally; however, small schedule deviations are possible due to the need for additional heating of aircraft systems, engines and the cabin, the airline’s press service said.

In Russia, it was proposed that cadets pay for each attempt to pass the driving test.

In Russia, a proposal was made to introduce a fee for each attempt to take the driving test — from 4,000 to 6,000 rubles. The initiative was put forward by the deputy chairman of the All‑Russian Society of Motorists, Vladimir Korobchak.

A "lake" of feces appeared in Yekaterinburg.

On Okrainnaya Street, between houses 35 and 36, a utility accident occurred that resulted in an entire lake of sewage. It was covered with snow, and then the feces were gathered into a pile.

Sverdlovsk parents complained to Mizulina that their children are being forced to attend school.

Yekaterinburg residents complained to Yekaterina Mizulina that their children are being forced to go to school in the freezing cold. Sverdlovsk residents told the head of the Safe Internet League that several schools have already switched to remote learning because of the bad weather.