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A few weeks later, a similar, though less drastic sewage problem in the town of Pervouralsk, a small city west of Yekaterinburg, provoked residents to drag buckets of fecal water to the offices of the local water council in protest, claiming authorities had neglected the problem for years.

Burbulis was born on Aug. 4, 1945, in Pervouralsk.

In 2015, a 23-year-old Muslim woman from Pervouralsk was convicted of extremism after saying New Year's Eve should not be marked because Santa Claus was "pagan".