Latest prices in Russia

[David Burrous]

Dear Seelangers:  I just returned from Zhukovsky, Russia, after a two week
stay.  I thought that you might find the following prices interesting.
(The last time that I was in Russia was four years ago.  I was in culture
shock after seeing these.)

Exchange rate as of March 22, 1995 was 4880 rubles to the dollar.

Bus ride: 500 rubles
Metal form for making "ponchiky" (Russian donuts): 500 rubles
Candles for sale in Orthodox churches: 500, 1,000, 1500, and 2,000 rubles
Compact Disk: 20,000 rubles
Monthly public transportation ticket (yediny bilyet):15,000 rubles
Sausage, 7,500  rubles per 500 gramms
Purchase a car:  25 million rubles and up.
Cigarettes: 3,200 rubles
Matches: 100 rubles
Bread: 1,000 rubles
Tea:  5,000 rubles
Sugar: 2,530 rubles
Russian champagne: 10,000 - 12,000 rubles
Milk: 3,000 rubles per liter
Meat: 10,000 - 25,000 rubles per kilogram
Movie ticket: 1,000 to 2,000 rubles
Salt:  750 rubles
Butter: 16,000 rubles
Winter coat:  1,000,000 rubles
Shoes: 170,000 rubles
Onions: 3,700 rubles per kilo
Cucumbers:  7,500 rubles per kilo
Oranges:  3,700 rubles per kilo
Joe's Cola: 2,200 rubles per liter
Videotaped movie:15, 000 rubles
Archie comic:  2,400 rubles
Airmail postage for a letter to USA:1,900 rubles
Reebok Tennis shoes:  125,000 rubles
Wristwatch:  79,000 to 156,000 rubles
Lipstick:  13,500 rubles
Palmolive soap:  3,500 rubles
Absolut vodka:  32,200, 40,00, and 50,00 rubles
Tea:  3,600 rubles per 100 gramms
Coca Cola:  5000 rubles per 1.5 liters
Diet Coke: 1,900 rubles
Seven-Up:  5,700 per 1.5 liters
Pepsi:  6,000 rubles per liter
Salem cigarettes:  2,600 rubles
Pen:  1,600 rubles
Used Video Camera:  7,000,000 rubles
Car battery, new:  160,000 rubles
Eggs:  3,900 rubles for ten
Panasonic Walkman:  139,000 rubles
Piece a pizza in GUM:  5,000 rubles
Wrigley's Gum:  1,100 rubles
Playboy  Magazine:  40,000 rubles

Teacher's salary:  240,000 rubles per month
Office worker in Central Aero-Hydrodynamic's Institute:  170,000 rubles per
month
University student stipend: 24,000 rubles per month

Rent: 30,000 rubles per month
Electricity:  10,000 rubles



David E. Burrous                         * phone:       (303) 465-1144
Standley Lake Sr. High School | voice mail: (303) 982-3221
9300 West 104th Avenue          (  ) fax:           (303) 465-1403
Westminster, CO  80021,  USA   |  | e.mail:  burrous at csn.net
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