Video: Russia 1913/2017. Salaries and prices
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Multiplying by 1000 rubles in 1913 in Russia, so that the salaries and prices of that time are clear to the living now, we get:
The salary of a laborer - 30 thousand rubles per month
Salary of a builder (carpenter, plasterer, locksmith) - 56 thousand rubles per month
Fitter's salary - 70-80 thousand rubles per month
Railway driver's salary - 80-100 thousand rubles per month
The salary of a metal worker - 50 thousand rubles per month
Plus additional payments (bonuses) to the salary - 10% -60%
PRICES in Moscow:
1 kg of black bread - 50 r
1 kg of white bread (i.e. 2.5 loaves of sliced 400 g each) - 120 rubles (or 48 rubles per loaf)
1 kg of flour - 70 r
1 kg of potatoes - 20 rubles
1 kg of meat of the highest. varieties - 500 r
1 liter of milk - 80 rub
1 kg of boiled sausage - 350 rub
1 kg of smoked sausage - 750 rub
1 lb (800 g) tea - RUB 1400 (8 packs of 100 g)
1 l sunflower - 320 r
1 kg of butter - 700-900 r
1 kg of buckwheat - 90 rub
1 liter of vodka - 300 rubles
1 liter of wine - 400 rub
women's boots - 4000 r
short fur coat - 15,000 r
ticket to the Bolshoi Theater - 320 rubles
cinema ticket 180 - 200 rub
visit to the doctor - 200 r
tuition fee for a child at school - 2000 rubles per month
rent a room in the center of Moscow with a servant - 11,000 rubles per month
It seems that nothing has changed in Russia in a hundred years.
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