A fire with casualties occurred in a five-story building in Verkhnyaya Pyshma.

A fire that claimed the lives of two people occurred in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Sverdlovsk Region reported. The blaze broke out in an apartment on the second floor of a five‑story residential building on Ogneuporshchikov Street.

Dangerous minced meat has made it onto the shelves of Sverdlovsk stores.

Dangerous minced meat has made it onto the shelves of Sverdlovsk stores.

WhatsApp stopped working for some residents of Sverdlovsk*

Residents of Yekaterinburg reported problems with the WhatsApp messenger (owned by Meta, which has been designated extremist in the Russian Federation). According to them, messages are not being sent either in the web version of the service or in the desktop application.

Sverdlovsk residents are once again expecting a thaw.

Today, November 25, residents of Yekaterinburg can again expect anomalously warm weather for November. Across the region, cloudy weather with occasional clearings is expected: at night light snow in places; during the day light precipitation, and in the north moderate precipitation in the form of rain, wet snow and snow.

A well-known hockey player has died in Yekaterinburg.

Sergey Pechenin, a veteran of Ural hockey, Master of Sport and a first‑category referee, has died at the age of 74. A product of Sverdlovsk’s Yunost, he spent ten seasons as a goaltender for Avtomobilist, playing for the Sverdlovsk team in the 1970s and 1980s.

The missing girl was found receiving treatment at a hospital in Yekaterinburg.

Twenty-year-old Revda resident Olga Cherkasova was found alive. The young woman was in one of Yekaterinburg’s hospitals. Police officers are investigating all the circumstances.

Sverdlovsk Oblast has launched age verification in stores via the MAX messenger.

Residents of Sverdlovsk Oblast can now verify their age when purchasing goods in stores using a digital ID built into the Max messenger.

The Kirovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg fined two men, one of whom is a native of a post‑Soviet country. Each was fined 480,000 rubles.

It has been revealed whether the EKAD will ultimately become a toll road.

The government of Sverdlovsk Oblast refused to sign a concession agreement for the modernization and expansion of the EKAD — a project that had been under development since 2024.

Appeal denied: court puts an end to the case of guardian Naumova, who killed little Daler.

Today, November 24, the Second Appellate Court of General Jurisdiction of Saint Petersburg left the Sverdlovsk Regional Court's sentence in the case of Veronika Naumova and Daniil Egolnikov unchanged.

There will be no sharp spike in heating prices in Yekaterinburg.

The head of the Regional Energy Commission of the Sverdlovsk Region, Vladimir Grishanov, approved a new resolution establishing ceiling prices for heat energy in the Yekaterinburg heat‑supply price zone for 2026.

The reason for the rise in gasoline prices in the Sverdlovsk region has been named.

In Sverdlovsk Oblast, an increase in gasoline and diesel fuel prices was recorded in October. As the Ural Main Directorate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation notes, the price rise is linked to repair work at a number of oil refineries and to increased seasonal demand.

A Sverdlovsk deputy mayor was arrested for taking a large bribe.

A court arrested the former deputy mayor of Rezh, Alexander Kachurin, a few days after the mayoral election. The official was dismissed and charged with accepting a large bribe, the press service of the regional prosecutor's office said.

A woman from Sverdlovsk beat her 5-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter.

A resident of Kamensk-Uralsky grabbed her 5-year-old son by the neck and beat her 11-year-old daughter. Lawyer Sergey Barsukov, representing the children's father, appealed to the Investigative Committee of the Sverdlovsk Region.