Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk are in the top 5 for digital ruble transactions The new technology, which was put into wide circulation on September 1, was tested by about 23% of the residents of the Urals, and in general, the leaders in the number of open accounts in the country were Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk read on the site.