Cycling activist and part-time blogger Ilya Varlamov, known for his joint trips with Putin and his subtle sense of style, set out to answer the age-old question: "Who is living well in Russia?" To do this, he took data on the city budget and divided it by the number of residents, hoping that the resulting figure (in thousands of rubles per resident) will show which city is richer and which is poorer.
The poorest city turned out to be Makhachkala, where no more than 10 thousand "budget" rubles fall on one citizen. And which city turned out to be the richest, you will learn from top-10 Russian cities sorted by budget expenditure per person.
10. Tyumen
Tyumen is one of the fastest growing cities in Russia... The budget provides for 29 thousand rubles for each resident of Tyumen. Perhaps, such a pleasant-looking figure was the result of low salaries of state employees and the accumulation of tax collections. In 2016, Tyumen will host the world swimming championship and the stages of the biathlon world cup.
9. Novokuznetsk
Large industrial center Siberia, according to Forbes magazine (Russian edition), ranks 13th among the 30 best Russian cities for doing business. The ratio of the budget to the number of residents is 29 thousand rubles.
8. Severodvinsk
The budget of Severodvinsk has allocated 32 thousand rubles for each resident. Since 2001, the city has been implementing the concept of strategic development thanks to injections from the federal budget, reconstruction of roads, engineering infrastructure and support of large city-forming shipbuilding and ship repair enterprises. How well an individual citizen lives at the same time is a big question.
7. Gelendzhik
One of the best sea resorts in Russia... The population of the city is 109,251 people, with 36 thousand rubles of budget money per capita. In terms of contribution to the budget, the resort and tourist complex is in the lead, followed by trade, catering, science and construction.
6. Khimki
The crisis with free space in Moscow led to the withdrawal of a large number of commercial properties to the Moscow region, and since the beginning of the new century Khimki has become an area of mass residential development. Now one of the largest satellite cities of Moscow can afford to spend 39 thousand rubles per inhabitant. And according to the results of the study of the "Secret Firmy" magazine, Khimki took first place among 164 cities in Russia - and even the scandal with the Khimki forest is not a hindrance.
5. Surgut
The city's budget accounts for 64 thousand rubles per capita. Surgut is a powerful industrial center where headquarters are based largest private companies, oil and gas and energy sales, is the world's largest thermal power plant and the average monthly salary is 68.7 thousand rubles.
4. Khanty-Mansiysk
The budget / resident ratio in this city is equal to 71 thousand rubles. Alas, the bulk of local budget revenues (personal income tax) decreased by 13.8% compared to last year, which is the result of the fall of the ruble in 2015... The bulk of the expenditure side - and this is 45% - goes to finance education.
3. St. Petersburg
The northern capital occupies an honorable third place in the rating and “spends” 79 thousand rubles per inhabitant.Due to the crisis this year, expenses for holidays, festivals and conferences were cut, so the city hopes to save up to 30 million rubles.
2. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
The budget / population ratio in the administrative center of the Sakhalin Oblast is 110 thousand rubles (for comparison, the same figure in the Spanish capital Madrid is more than a thousand rubles). However, the population of the city is relatively small - only 192,780 inhabitants.
1.Moscow
Any resident of Russia can easily guess who exactly will take the leading position in the ranking of cities with the highest budget spending on residents. Of course, this is Moscow! For the sake of interest, the budget of the Russian capital can be compared with the expenses of a number of European capitals. The budget / population ratio in Moscow is 122 thousand rubles, in London this figure is 135 thousand rubles, in Paris - 297 thousand rubles, in Berlin - 514 thousand rubles, and the record holder in this regard is New York - 593 thousand rubles.
However, in 2015 Moscow was recognized the most developed metropolis in the world according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.
