A strong smell of gas frightened residents of Yekaterinburg.

Residents of the building at 17 Armavirskaya Street complained of a strong smell of gas. "There is a smell of gas in several stairwells," a local resident told the E1.RU portal.

A drunk man in Yekaterinburg stole a Volkswagen, crashed into a pole and overturned.

The day before, on October 4, a Volkswagen Polo sped along the tram tracks at the intersection of Elektrikov and Frontovykh Brigad. The car then hit a pole and overturned.

A tire service garage on Zoologicheskaya Street caught fire in Yekaterinburg.

A tire service shop caught fire this afternoon, October 4, on Zoologicheskaya Street in Yekaterinburg, E1.RU reports. The report of the fire was received at 2:30 PM.

The Minister of Education of Sverdlovsk Oblast spoke in favor of wearing kokoshniks in schools.

Svetlana Trenikhina, the Minister of Education of Sverdlovsk Oblast, has spoken in favor of wearing kokoshniks at school. This was reported on the Telegram channel of Marina Akhmedova, a member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation and editor-in-chief of the Regnum news agency.

After the collision, the car was thrown into a bus stop complex in Yekaterinburg.

A severe crash involving two cars occurred on Rucheynaya Street in the Michurinsky microdistrict of Yekaterinburg, reports "KP-Yekaterinburg."

A 16-year-old girl who had come from Yekaterinburg for the weekend fell from the ninth floor in Bulanash.

A sixteen-year-old girl is believed to have committed suicide in the settlement of Bulanash, the Telegram channel of the publication "Yegorshinskie Vesti" reports. According to the publication, on the night of October 4, the girl fell from the balcony of the ninth floor of a building on A. Nevsky Street in the settlement of Bulanash.

A New York University graduate will represent Yekaterinburg in the 'Miss Russia' pageant.

The final of the Miss Russia — 2025 beauty pageant will be held today, October 4, in Moscow, reports E1.RU. Yekaterinburg will be represented there by 23-year-old Dina Safina.

A large-scale power outage occurred in Yekaterinburg.

Uralmash and Elmach were left without electricity on Saturday afternoon due to a major power grid failure, reports URA.RU. Because of the outage, stores closed, and the Veer Mall shopping center was also left without power.

A photographer from the Urals had their work included in the world's top 'nude' photographs list.

Alexander Tikhiy, an emerging photographer from Chelyabinsk Oblast and a native of Korkino, ranked among the top 2% in the Black and White Nude category of the 35Awards competition.

The search for a Yekaterinburg man who went missing on his way home in a red Peugeot has been suspended.

Volunteers have stopped the search for 38-year-old Marat Gainetdinov, who went missing on September 28. According to the man's acquaintances, he was found dead, E1.RU writes. As previously reported, at the end of September Marat was visiting Verkhoturye and on the morning of September 28 drove home to Yekaterinburg in his red Peugeot.

Two residents of Yekaterinburg extinguished the Eternal Flame in the center of Saint Petersburg with alcohol.

Two young men extinguished the Eternal Flame on the Field of Mars in Saint Petersburg. The incident occurred on the night of September 30. According to Irina Volk, the official spokesperson for the Russian Interior Ministry, who reported this on her Telegram channel, information about the crime was received around noon on Tuesday, September 30, by the police of Saint Petersburg’s Central District.

A trio of Ural residents tore up a Russian passport on camera in a bar.

Three residents of the Southern Urals were detained by officers of the regional FSB directorate and the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Chelyabinsk Region after they tore up a Russian passport on camera in one of the bars.

A resident of Nizhny Tagil came home and died. It turned out he had been hit by a minibus.

In Nizhny Tagil, a minibus driver could not conceal the fact that he had struck a pedestrian, who died of his injuries the following day. The accident occurred on Monday, September 29 at 21:40 at the signalized intersection of Krasnogvardeyskaya and Sadovodov streets in Nizhny Tagil.

A warm spell is coming to Sverdlovsk Oblast.

Over the weekend a cold anticyclone moved into Sverdlovsk Oblast; as it advances eastward, the region will begin to warm. Warm air will first penetrate the southwestern districts of Sverdlovsk Oblast, but will gradually displace the cold from the eastern districts as well, reports weather forecaster Alexey Pulin on his Telegram channel "Weather in Yekaterinburg."