Another unidentified Sverdlovsk resident won tens of millions in the lottery.

Sverdlovsk Oblast confirmed its status as one of the country's luckiest regions. A resident of the Urals won more than 60 million rubles in a lottery, the company Stoloto reported.

In the midst of the New Year's holidays, an earthquake occurred in Sverdlovsk Oblast.

An earthquake was recorded in Sverdlovsk Oblast. The tremors occurred on the night of January 1 in the northern part of the region, but they were detected by instruments only some time later.

A Nautilus Pompilius record was suddenly removed from Yekaterinburg's ice town.

A large record of the band Nautilus Pompilius was dismantled in Yekaterinburg’s Ice Town. Organizers said the structure was not securely fastened and could have come loose.

A Yekaterinburg resident has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing his two stepdaughters.

The Akademichesky District Court of Yekaterinburg today, January 5, imposed a preventive measure on a local resident accused of sexually abusing two minors — his 13- and 8-year-old stepdaughters, reports "KP-Yekaterinburg."

A man who fell through the ice in Zarechny recorded a video from his snowmobile shortly before his death.

The man whose body divers are searching for in the waters of the Beloyarsk Reservoir uploaded a video filmed from a snowmobile to the Internet shortly before his death. This was reported by "KP‑Yekaterinburg".

A 19-year-old "bomber" has been arrested in connection with an attempted terrorist attack in the Urals.

The Central District Court of Chelyabinsk remanded a 19-year-old resident of the Chelyabinsk Region in custody for two months for illegal possession of explosive substances. Interfax reports this, citing law enforcement agencies.

In Serov, a preventive measure was imposed on a teenager blamed for the deaths of two children in a summer house fire.

A court in Serov ordered pretrial detention for a 17-year-old accused of causing a fire that killed two children. In the Serov settlement of Medyankino on January 1, 2026, a 14-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl died in a fire at a dacha.

The person rescued from an ice hole on the Beloyarsk Reservoir died in hospital.

A man whom rescuers managed to pull from a hole in the ice on the Beloyarskoye Reservoir has died. This was reported by URA.RU. The body of the other person who had been on the snowmobile has not yet been found.

An explosion destroyed the boiler house in the settlement of Teplaya Gora in Perm Krai.

An explosion at a boiler house occurred in the settlement of Teplyaya Gora in Perm Krai. It was a gas explosion, Governor Dmitry Makhonin said. The incident occurred overnight on January 5, according to URA.RU.

A small park honoring the trainer-rescuer has been opened in Yekaterinburg at the corner of Frunze and Belinsky streets.

A small park named after Viktor Kobtsev, Honored Coach of the RSFSR in firefighting sports, was opened in Yekaterinburg at the end of December 2025. The city's administration press service reports.

In Yekaterinburg, an Azerbaijani family that received New Year's gifts from the district head was harassed.

In Yekaterinburg, a family of Azerbaijanis who received inexpensive New Year’s gifts from officials was hounded after being targeted by the media. A ball containing a request from three children in the same family, each of whom is not yet ten years old, was picked at random from the “Wishing Tree” by Vitaly Pershin, head of the Zheleznodorozhny District, reports Yekaterinburg, a Telegram channel close to the city administration.

A street honoring the designer of the Kalibr missiles has appeared in Yekaterinburg.

A street named after the renowned designer of cruise missiles Pavel Kamnev has appeared in Yekaterinburg. Pavel Kamnev’s name was given to a street in the Ordzhonikidzevsky District that had the project name “Novaya-1.”

"One person was rescued." A snowmobile carrying two people fell through the ice in Sverdlovsk Oblast.

A snowmobile carrying two people broke through the ice yesterday on the Beloyarsk Reservoir. The ice could not support the weight of the vehicle, and the snowmobile's driver and his passenger went underwater.

Residents of the building in Pervouralsk, where a gas explosion occurred the day before, are being relocated to a temporary accommodation center.

As a result of a gas‑air mixture explosion that occurred the day before in Pervouralsk, the owner of the apartment in which the incident took place was injured. This was reported by the Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region.