899 instances of car theft and 1,025 hijackings were registered in Sverdlovsk Region in eight months of 2010. As for the month of August, fifty-two foreign automobiles were stolen, with Toyota proving the most frequently stolen car make: twenty Toyotas went missing in the region altogether. VAZ 2106-2165 and VAZ 2101-2103 car makes were the second most ‘popular’ models: all in all, seventy-eight such automobiles were stolen this August.