Yekaterinburg proves one of Russia’s 10 Best Cities to Work

September 19, 2014. Car sales have been dropping much more drastically in big Russian cities (population over 1m) than in Saint Petersburg, which is actually the slowest-declining market, or in Moscow, which comes second in the race, Gazeta.ru reports. Not in one Russian city with the population of over 1m people did the new car sales go up in the six months of 2014. In January-June 2014, Saint Petersburg was No.1 in terms of car market growth compared with other large Russian cities. 66,300 passenger vehicles were sold there in the given period, which was only 0.2% less than in the six

November 18, 2014. Yekaterinburg came seventh in the rating of Russian cities with the highest living standards, the findings of a research by the Sociology Department of the Financial University under the Russian Federation Government indicate. Tyumen, Moscow, Kazan, Krasnodar, Saint Petersburg, and Chelyabinsk were also among the top seven, while Volgograd, Kurgan, Ulyanovsk, Omsk, Astrakhan, and Togliatti turned out to be cities with poor living standards. The research involved cities with population over 500,000 people, plus two cities with smaller population were added to verify the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 22, 2017. Yekaterinburg came seventh in the rating of Russia’s fifty largest cities in terms of new home prices in August 2017, domofond.ru reports. Just like one year earlier, Moscow was predictably No.1, followed by towns in Moscow Region, Saint Petersburg, and cities in the Volga Region and the South of Russia. In Moscow, the average price of a new home rose by 1.6% in the course of one year, from RUR 222,900 per m2 in August 2016 to RUR 226,400 in August 2017. Saint Petersburg was second on the list, with the average per-square-meter price of a new home

September 4, 2014. Travel.ru carried a rating of Russian cities that are most frequently traveled to in the summer; the rating is based on hotel booking data between June 1 and August 31, 2014. Yekaterinburg was given the fourth position in the rating. Among the top ten summer trips cities were Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan, Nizhniy Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Samara, and Perm as well. Travelers stayed in Yekaterinburg for three days on average last summer; they spent some 3,800 RUR a day on accommodation at local hotels. Moscow was ahead of Saint Petersburg in terms of

December 3, 2014. Yekaterinburg was given the third position in the rating of international brands as they are represented in Russian cities this year; this rating was drawn up by Magazin Magazinov and featured the country’s thirty-six largest cities. ‘The first five positions have been given to the same cities over the last few years (2011-2014): Moscow is on top of the list, with 90% of all the international brands operating in Russia running their outlets in the capital; Saint Petersburg is in the second place (50%) and Yekaterinburg is in the third place (37%). Krasnodar (32%) and