UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s construction market amounted to 41.79bn RUR in money terms in the first half of the year, which is 2% less than one year earlier (40.691bn RUR), Rosstat reports.

Last year’s overall amount dropped by 15.2% by the end of December (down to 92.366bn RUR), and by 8.9% in the first quarter of 2016 (down to 18.37bn RUR).