According to the “Russian Standard”, the average size of the check for housing and communal services in Russia was 3405 rubles
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The average bill for housing and communal services in Russia in 2021 amounted to 3,405 rubles. This amount is named in the study of the bank “Russian Standard”, which is published by RIA Novosti.
Experts studied the checks for housing and communal services, which are paid by mobile bank users, and compared the results with the amounts for 2020. The increase in the price tag for the year amounted to a little more than 200 rubles — in 2020, Russians on average gave 3168 rubles for housing and communal services.
According to analysts, the difference in amounts is explained by the fact that in 2019-2020 the winter was warm, and the batteries in the houses did not have to be heated much. However, the following winter became cold and snowy, so heating costs increased.
The cities with the highest utility bills were Naberezhnye Chelny (4772 rubles), Tyumen (3880 rubles), Moscow (3475 rubles), Togliatti (3414 rubles) and St. Petersburg (2806 rubles).
Earlier, Nadezhda Kosareva, president of the Institute of City Economics Foundation, said that the number of recipients of targeted subsidies for housing and communal services (HCS) could increase to 11 million families when switching to economically reasonable tariffs.
