In April of 1979, people from the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk began falling strangely ill with inexplicable symptoms. Soviet intelligence is believed to have covered-up the true number of casualties.

Now people know that there was a special military settlement in Sverdlovsk. For a little period of time that settlement was involved in research and development, and manufacturing of biological ...

A court in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region has sentenced a 27-year-old resident of Lesnoy to 12 years in a strict regime prison colony on charges of treason for reportedly transferring money to support ...

A miner, who was wounded in a ground fall at a mine in Severouralsk in the Sverdlovsk Region in Russia ... As a result of this incident, a man born in 1995, was wounded.

Officials in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region have recommended military service as an alternative to expulsion for failing students in a scheme that would offer academic leave instead. Earlier this week, an ...

YEKATERINBURG, May 7. /TASS/. Forest fires in Russia’s Urals region of Sverdlovsk exceeded 33,000 hectares as of Saturday night, the regional Department of Information Policy said on Sunday.