Sverdlovsk Region is Russia's 3d most active buyer of foreign cars

August 2, 2013. Sverdlovsk Region is now the constituency with the third biggest amount of new foreign cars purchased by locals: 42,700 cars were sold in the first half of 2013, which is 2,500 less than a year earlier. All in all, 1.04m foreign cars were sold in Russia over this period, which is 4.5% less than a year earlier, Avtostat, an analytics agency, reports.

Moscow residents still buy the largest number of cars: 31.5% of all the foreign cats that were sold in Russia in January-June 2013 were sold in Moscow. Saint-Petersburg, which represents 8.7% of all sales, is the city with the second largest number of all newly bought foreign cars, followed by Sverdlovsk Region, Krasnodar Territory (38,500 cars, or 3.7% of all sales), and Tyumen Region, which dropped down to the fifth position with its 3.6% share of the market and 37,700 cars.

34,200 automobiles were purchased by the residents of Tatarstan (3.3% of all foreign car sales), 30,000 were bought in Bashkortostan (2.9%), 29,600 cars were bought in Samara Region (2.8%), 28,700 cars were bought in Nizhniy Novgorod Region (2.8%), and 26,100 cars were bought in Chelyabinsk Region (2.5%).