Cost of Living inYekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
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Purchasing Power vs. United States
Based on GDP per capita (PPP). Russia: $41,705/capita.
How Far Your Money Goes
Prices are 64% lower than the global benchmark (New York City = 100).
Income Category
Happiness
5.8 / 10
#71 globally
GDP per Capita
City Population
Monthly Costs
Rent
Food
Transport
Utilities
Education
Child Education
Public-school quality, expat access, instruction language, and homeschool legality for relocating families.
Public schools
Public-schooling rules are set nationally for Russia; Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast-specific enrollment notes are still being verified.
Quality
Good public schools
Expat access
Possible, but language-heavy
hardInstruction
Russian
Language fit is more manageable.
PISA / outcomes
Qualitative only
Using curated quality notes for now.
Why this quality rating
Russia's public schools can be academically strong, but the system is designed around local integration rather than short-horizon expat mobility.
Why the expat-access rating looks like this
Resident families may be able to enroll, but Russian-medium instruction makes the public route difficult for most expat families.
📋 Homeschooling
Legal with school enrollmentRussia legally allows "family education" (semeinoe obrazovanie). Students must be registered with a school for assessment. Exams follow the federal curriculum. Growing community, particularly in Moscow.
Homeschool legality in Russia — check current regulations before committing.
Source: User-curated family relocation research (initial seed) (2026-04-14)
Childcare & Domestic Help
Estimate-only country fallback for the family-support costs we track in Russia.
Full-time nanny (5 days)
$775-$1,150
Estimate-only country fallback
Live-in / 24-7 nanny
$1,400-$2,100
Estimate-only country fallback
Source: curated family relocation research(derived country fallback)
Getting Around
Neighborhood mobility profiles are rolling out city by city.Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast is still missing a verified walkability, transit, airport, and rideshare profile.
Healthcare
System strength, outcome signals, facility coverage, and self-pay visibility in Russia.
Method: country metrics come from public system indicators, facility coverage reflects mapped providers we can inventory, direct pricing only reflects observed self-pay pages, and relative care cost can fall back to broad cost-of-living healthcare indices. Sparse pricing does not imply sparse healthcare availability.
Healthcare system
StrongGood national coverage, strong doctor availability, and solid hospital-bed capacity support this rating.
Public care
GoodBroad public coverage, strong public funding, and a visible public hospital footprint support this rating.
Private care
MixedA large tracked hospital and clinic network help, but self-pay pricing transparency is still sparse.
UHC coverage
81/100
2023
Physicians
5.11/1k
2022
Hospital beds
6.81/1k
2023
Out of pocket
28%
2023
Outcome signals
Life expectancy
73.4 yrs
2024
Maternal mortality
9/100k
2023
Neonatal mortality
2.0/1k
2024
International patient readiness
MixedMultiple facilities have websites and there is visible specialty depth help, but price transparency is still sparse.
Pricing transparency
LimitedMultiple facilities have crawlable websites help, but published self-pay prices are scarce.
Facility coverage
Self-pay pricing visibility
No verified self-pay prices are published for the tracked facilities in Russia yet.
This usually reflects low online price transparency rather than a lack of healthcare providers.
Notable facilities
System metrics: World Bank WDI · Updated 2026-06-01
Safety & Governance
Street Safety
Source: Numbeo where a city row is matched; otherwise World Bank WGI and country-level safety context.
Political Stability
World Bank WGI scale: -2.5 to +2.5.
Wages by Sector
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| Administrative & Support Services | — |
| Agriculture & Farming | — |
| Arts, Entertainment & Recreation | — |
| Construction | — |
| Education | — |
| Healthcare & Social Work | — |
| Hospitality & Food Service | — |
| Information & Technology | — |
| Manufacturing | — |
| Mining & Quarrying | — |
| Professional & Scientific Services | — |
| Real Estate | — |
| Retail & Wholesale Trade | — |
| Transport & Logistics | — |
| Utilities | — |
2021 annual wages in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia · Source: Rosstat (region-adjusted)
Price Comparison vs. US
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Quick comparison FAQ
Structured from the deltas already shown on this page — no invented facts, no extra data sources.
How far does your money go in Yekaterinburg compared with the US?
Your money goes about 2.9x further in Yekaterinburg than in the US, based on the current PPP estimate.
Is Yekaterinburg cheaper or more expensive overall than New York City?
Yekaterinburg is cheaper overall than New York City — overall living costs are about 64% cheaper than the global benchmark (New York City) for Yekaterinburg.
How does rent in Yekaterinburg compare with New York City?
Rent in Yekaterinburg is about 86% cheaper than the global benchmark (New York City).
How expensive are groceries and restaurants in Yekaterinburg?
Groceries in Yekaterinburg are about 66% cheaper than the global benchmark (New York City), and restaurant prices are about 61% cheaper than the same benchmark.
About Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast
Yekaterinburg is the fourth-largest city in Russia, an inland metropolis of about 1.5 million on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains, traditionally regarded as the boundary between European and Asian Russia. It is the economic and administrative hub of the Urals Federal District, with heavy industry (metallurgy, machine building, defense), regional banking, and a substantial student population anchoring formal jobs. Relocators should weigh that Western sanctions since 2022 have sharply curtailed corporate-expat postings, banking links, and outbound flights; the formal foreign community is now small. The climate is sharply continental with long, very cold winters and warm summers, Russian is essential in daily life, and the Trans-Siberian railway and a major international airport provide domestic and Asia-bound connectivity.
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