The number of people plunging into the ice hole for Epiphany increased in Sverdlovsk Oblast.

In Sverdlovsk Oblast, the number of people wishing to plunge into the Jordan for the Baptism of the Lord has increased significantly. This is evident from the statistics of the regional Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Source: the death of the woman found on a balcony in Yekaterinburg was not a homicide.

The death of a woman from Serov, who was found dead on the balcony of a rented apartment in Yekaterinburg, is not being treated as criminal, a source in the emergency services told KP-Ekaterinburg.

The prosecutor's office found violations by the utilities in Sverdlovsk Oblast.

The Prosecutor’s Office of the Sverdlovsk Region identified violations in the operation of the regional Ministry of Energy and Housing and Utilities when posting information about the major repairs of apartment buildings in the GIS Housing and Utilities system.

"Accomplices detained." Security forces uncovered an acid attack plot against a woman from Yekaterinburg.

Police in Yekaterinburg detained accomplices of media manager Nikolai Ermakov, who is accused of ordering an attempt on his ex‑wife's life. "The attack was uncovered while the trail was still hot," said Valery Gorelykh, head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Russian Interior Ministry for the Sverdlovsk Region.

"Why did you shave off your mustache?" The man who beat a schoolboy in Uktus has been detained.

The man who attacked a 13-year-old schoolboy on Mount Uktus turned out to be a 38-year-old guide. He has already been detained. Before that, he personally contacted the publication "KP-Yekaterinburg" and gave his own account of what happened.

The mayor of Yekaterinburg announced the construction of new metro stations.

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Abnormally cold temperatures as low as -42°C will persist in Sverdlovsk Oblast.

Severe frosts are returning to the Urals. According to forecasters, until the end of this week we can expect temperatures below -30 degrees even during daytime hours. As reported by the Ural Hydrometeorological Center,

All DUO coffee shops in Yekaterinburg have closed.

In Yekaterinburg, all DUO coffee shops have suspended operations after guests complained of food poisoning. The portal 66.RU reports this; its correspondents visited all the locations and confirmed that the coffee shops were not operating.

In central Yekaterinburg, a fence by the bridge over the river collapsed because of drifting foreign cars.

Residents of Yekaterinburg noticed this morning, January 19, that several sections of the metal railing on the bridge over the Iset River on Kuybysheva Street had fallen into the river.

In Yekaterinburg, the tallest RMK slide in Russia and the ice rink are being closed.

Frosts have returned to the Urals, and along with them Sverdlovsk residents will be deprived of their fun winter activities. Slides and ice rinks will be closed for at least three days. Thus, from January 21 the operation of the huge RMK slide and the rink at this location has been suspended until Friday, January 23.

It has been revealed who in Sverdlovsk Oblast won more than 300 million rubles in the lottery.

A young mother from Sverdlovsk Oblast won 333 million rubles in the "New Year's Billion." The press service of the State Lottery reports. One of the four multimillionaires of the New Year's draw was the young mother, an educational psychologist from a small settlement in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Natalia Lokhmatova.

A huge traffic jam has formed at the ZhBI because of an accident.

In Yekaterinburg on the afternoon of January 20, a traffic accident occurred on Malysheva Street near the Komsomolskaya stop, paralyzing traffic at the ZhBI. According to the Telegram channel "Transport News of Yekaterinburg", traffic is congested toward the Malyshevsky Bridge.

In Yekaterinburg, the identity of the visitor who beat a 13-year-old schoolboy on the Uktus Mountains has been established.

In Yekaterinburg, law enforcement officers have identified the man who attacked a 13-year-old on the slope of Mount Uktus over the past weekend. The suspect is expected to be detained shortly, a source familiar with the case told the EAN news agency.

"We lost Nadezhda." The 62-year-old pensioner who went missing on New Year's Eve was found in the Urals.

The search for 62-year-old Nadezhda Shimko has ended in Yekaterinburg. The pensioner disappeared on New Year's Eve, December 31. On December 31 the woman was planning to visit a relative but did not reach her destination.