The criminal case against former Minister of Housing and Communal Services Nikolai Smirnov has been sent to the Yekaterinburg court.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region approved the indictments in the bribery criminal cases against former Minister of Energy and Housing and Communal Services of the Sverdlovsk Region Nikolai Smirnov, as well as his former first deputy Igor Chikrizov and former deputy Andrey Kislytsin.

They have been searching for a missing TV camera operator in Yekaterinburg for two weeks.

In Yekaterinburg, people have been searching for 44-year-old Maxim Pushkarev, who disappeared without a trace, for two weeks. His relatives last spoke to him by phone on September 22, KP-Yekaterinburg reports.

A man from Yekaterinburg who went missing while driving home was found dead.

A resident of Yekaterinburg, Marat Gainetdinov, who went missing on September 28 while on his way home, has been found dead. "Found. Deceased," reads the search alert for the 38-year-old man.

A branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Yekaterinburg has closed.

The branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (GMII) in Yekaterinburg has ceased operations, Interfax reports. The museum’s press service called the exhibition season at the former Builders’ Club (SITI-Center), to which the branch moved from its previously rented premises less than six months ago, a “long farewell.”

The Yekaterinburg court may issue a ruling on the lawsuit seeking to nationalize "Oblkommunenergo" as early as Wednesday.

The motion to enter into a settlement agreement regarding the nationalization of JSC Oblkommunenergo was put forward at the court hearing on October 6 in the Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg by STS Corporation, Kommersant‑Ural reports.

"Groundhog Day." A driver was killed in a collision with a tractor in Sverdlovsk Oblast.

The circumstances of the fatal road traffic accident that occurred early this morning near Kamyshlov are being investigated by officers of the State Traffic Inspectorate of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region.

Trams may stop serving Vtorchermet because of teenage "gangs."

If teenage aggression continues, trams will stop running to districts where tram crews are subject to unlawful acts. This was announced on the unofficial Telegram channel "Yekaterinburg."

Direct flights from Yekaterinburg to Phu Quoc are resuming.

On November 15, 2025, direct flights from Koltsovo to Phu Quoc (Vietnam) will resume. Flights will be operated by AZUR air once every 12 days on Boeing 767-300ER aircraft configured with 336 economy-class seats.

"Antifa from Vtorchermet." A tram driver in Yekaterinburg was shot by a rampaging teenager.

In Yekaterinburg, a ninth-grader shot a tram driver in the leg with an air pistol, according to the unofficial Telegram channel of the city administration "Yekaterinburg."

The prosecutor's office commented on sending the killer of Posadskaya's little daughter to a psychiatric hospital.

The press service of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Sverdlovsk Region reported on the circumstances of the murder of a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter by a resident of Yekaterinburg who was found to be mentally ill.

The criminal case against the mentally unfit man from the Urals who threw his one-year-old daughter from the fifth floor has been closed.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court closed the criminal case against a previously convicted resident of Yekaterinburg who in December 2023 threw his one‑year‑old daughter into a snowdrift beneath the windows of a five‑story building on Posadskaya Street.

In Yekaterinburg, a kidnapper was convicted of treason.

The verdict in the case of state treason was announced on Friday, October 3, at the Sverdlovsk Regional Court. Yekaterinburg resident Konstantin Markov is accused of providing Ukrainian intelligence services, for monetary remuneration, with personal data of citizens of the Russian Federation that could subsequently have been used in the interests of the intelligence services of foreign states.

The killers of a missing Yekaterinburg man have been detained.

In Verkhoturye, the district court remanded two men accused of murdering 38-year-old Yekaterinburg resident Marat Gainetdinov into custody, reports KP-Yekaterinburg.

Several schoolchildren were injured in Irkutsk during a crush in a school changing room.

In Irkutsk, the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee opened an investigation after a video of a mass crush at the entrance to a school cloakroom was posted online. Its creators claimed that several pupils were injured as a result.