[lbo-talk] Thing Doug asked me

[andie nachgeborenen]

Used to be in the old days that the Soviet govt paid a
high premium to get workers to live and work in
Siberia and other out of the way places where labor
was short. Don't know if the Russian govt has
maintained this policy, but it looks to me like it
has.  However, in the waning days of perestroika and
under Yeltsin a lot of times workers didn't get paid
at all, they worked, literally, for food served in the
plant cafeteria, taking home enough for the family.
(Rent was low and rarely collected and the utilities
didn't turn off heat and power, etc. Though there was
one instance of a utility threatening to shut down the
power at a missle base if the Strategic Rocket Forces
didn't pay up . . . .)  Don't know any more how
regularly wages are paid. Chris? 

--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> 
> A couple of months ago Doug asked me on list about
> incomes in Moscow vs. outside Moscow, to which I
> answered anecdotally. What I should have done is
> jaunt
> over to the Russian State Statistics Committee's
> neat-o interactive income map
> (http://www.gks.ru/gis/D_02.htm ). Data are for
> January--August of 2005. It's in Russian, and I'm
> not
> going to put down the data for all 89 administrative
> districts, but I type a few below. As you van see,
> the
> idea that Moscow is super-affluent and every place
> else is mired in poverty is something of a myth,
> though it should be noticed that the real
> high-income
> regions have low populations and are heavy on
> natural
> resources. Chukotka in particular is Abramovich's
> feifdom. Sakha has a population of about a million
> in
> an area larger than India.
> 
> Average monthly income in Russian regions, official
> data, in rubles. Exchange rate is about 28 rubles to
> the dollar.
> 
> http://www.gks.ru/gis/D_02.htm
> 
> Chukotka Autonomous Region 20,139.7
> 
> Tyuman Oblast 19,005.1
> 
> Moscow City 12,964.4
> 
> Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) 12,806.6
> 
> Republic of Komi 11,293.5
> 
> Moscow Region 9047.1
> 
> Primorskii Krai 8734.6
> 
> Leningrad (St. Peterburg) Region 8171.6
> 
> Vladimir Region 5917
> 
> Rostov Region 5667.4
> 
> Republic of Dagestan 3541.9
> 
> 
> 
> Nu, zayats, pogodi!
> 
> 
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