0:00 Hello! My name is Ira, and this is my channel “About Russian in Russian”. This is a channel for foreigners who are studying Russian. A couple of months ago, a video was released on my channel called “How much does this cost in Russia now?” I told you about the prices of food and what we usually buy in supermarkets. I was surprised by how much you enjoyed this video, and I saw that many of you were interested in the prices of other things in Russia. I thought I
0:46 needed to make a second part, and so today I will tell you not about products, but about how much money you need to pay for an apartment, travel by car or public transport, how much a gym membership costs, and so on. If this topic is interesting to you, continue watching the video. Let's start with housing, yes, that is, with an apartment. Let me say right away that I live in Moscow and I will talk about Moscow. The situation is different in other cities in Russia, so please
1:35 keep this in mind. And to make it a little easier for you to understand the prices, I will write the prices in dollars. And the dollar to ruble exchange rate at the moment is like this, but I will speak about prices in rubles – simply because it is more familiar to me. Let's talk about how much it costs to rent an apartment, that is, to rent an apartment in Moscow. The cost may vary. It depends on the area where you rent an apartment and whether there is a metro there. Of course, it depends on the size of the apartment, how many rooms it has, what floor the apartment is on,
2:23 what condition the apartment is in, and so on. But I will tell you using the example of the apartment that my brother is currently renting. He lives near the metro - about 10 (ten) minutes walk to the metro, which is considered quite close. He lives in an area where there are supermarkets, shopping centers, a gym, parks, and so on. Also, in addition to the metro, there are bus stops nearby. He lives not very far from the city center, but not in the center. If you imagine a map of the Moscow metro, he lives about five stations from the ring. Inside the ring is the center of Moscow. It will take him about
3:12 15-20 (fifteen to twenty) minutes maximum to get to the ring. This is considered very good. He rents a one-room apartment. His apartment has a hallway, a bathroom (that is, a bathtub and a toilet), a kitchen and a bedroom. For such an apartment he pays 60,000 rubles (sixty thousand) per month – just for rent. But he also pays extra for hot and cold water and electricity. How much a person pays for hot water, cold water and electricity depends on how much water and electricity he uses. But I will be happy to tell you how much
4:04 I pay for utilities, as we say in Russian. Utilities, in short – this is communal services. Every month I receive receipts like these, which state what and how much I have to pay for. I live with my husband, that is, two people in an apartment. And now I’ll tell you how much we pay for utilities. Look, for water, electricity and other, that is, other services for the whole house and for the area, we pay 4,500 (four thousand five hundred) rubles.
4:51 We pay this every month – approximately this amount for our entrance to be clean, for there to be no problems with electricity in the entrance, for our yard to be clean, for our doors to work, for us to have a good elevator, for us to have a working intercom – that is, a system where you can call into the apartment downstairs, for us to have beautiful plants in the area, and so on – 4,500 rubles (four thousand five hundred) rubles. For hot water, cold water, electricity and other services, just for our apartment, we pay
5:41 approximately 4,300 (four three hundred thousand) rubles per month. This also usually includes a garbage removal service - that is, we throw out the garbage, and a truck takes this garbage away. This also includes various other services, but this is only for our apartment, and how much we pay depends on us. You also know that Russia has very cold winters and we have central heating. And so that we can pay not very much during the season when there is heating, we divide the cost over the whole year and every month,
6:28 even in summer, we pay for heating. And so, for example, last month we paid 2,120 (two thousand one hundred twenty) rubles for heating. And you can calculate approximately how much we pay for utilities while living in our apartment. Of course, there are other expenses too. For example, we pay for [I misspoke in the video] major repairs to the house every month, and this money is collected in the house account from each apartment. And if the house needs repairs, they will take money from there. Every month we pay approximately 1,100 (one thousand one hundred) rubles. And that’s how much
7:20 we pay every month for the apartment we live in. And this is our apartment, we bought it, we don’t rent it. But even when you buy an apartment, you still pay for it. That's all about the apartment. Let's now talk a little about cars. I have a car, a small one – Skoda Fabia. Here it is. It is very old – it is from 2011 (two thousand and eleven). And I'm talking about this because the first thing I want to talk about is the tax we pay every year for a car. The tax on my car is small. Every year I pay about 2,700 (two thousand seven hundred) rubles for
8:12 having a car. But, of course, this is not all the expenses on the car. To drive a car, you need gasoline. And I just looked up the cost of gasoline on the Internet to tell you the information that is relevant at this moment. Ninety-fifth gasoline is good gasoline, and that is what I use; it costs from 61 (sixty-one) rubles per liter to 76 (seventy-six) rubles per liter. There is a worse gasoline - ninety-second gasoline. It costs from 56 (fifty-six) rubles to 61 (sixty-one) rubles
8:58 per liter. But when I fill up my car with 95 octane gasoline, I fill the tank completely, and pay approximately 2,500 (two thousand five hundred) – 2,700 (two thousand seven hundred) rubles. This is usually how it happens to me. When you have a car, you sometimes park it in a paid parking lot. There are free parking lots in Moscow, but in the city center most parking lots are paid, except on Sundays. On Sunday, almost all parking is free, with a few exceptions. Parking costs from 40 (forty) rubles per hour to 600 (six hundred), sometimes 700 (seven hundred), sometimes even
9:49 800 (eight hundred) rubles per hour. But in such ordinary areas it is somewhere around 60-50 (sixty-fifty) rubles per hour. And also, when you drive a car, you can get fines. For example, if you exceed the speed limit by more than 20 km/h (twenty kilometers per hour), but less than 40 km/h (forty kilometers per hour), you will pay a fine of 750 (seven hundred fifty) rubles. If you exceed the speed limit by more than 40 km/h (forty kilometers per hour), there are 1000 (one thousand) and 1500 (one thousand five hundred) rubles. If you park your car incorrectly, for example, put it where
10:35 parking is prohibited, you will pay approximately 1,500 (one thousand five hundred) – 2,500 (two thousand five hundred) rubles. Depends on how you did it. From my own experience, I can say that, unfortunately, fines happen even if you drive carefully – sometimes there are different situations. The next part is sports. I was asked under the previous video how much it costs to work out in a gym in Russia. I go to the gym, I buy a membership every month, but it’s worth saying right away that I go to an inexpensive gym. There are more expensive gyms, and memberships there are very expensive for me. I know that a gym, which is not in my area, but in a neighboring one, costs
11:26 approximately 50-80,000 (fifty to eighty thousand) rubles per year. This means a lot to me. I go to a gym where I pay a membership every month, and I pay 1,800 (one thousand eight hundred) rubles a month. I can go to the gym, use the shower, but I can't go to group training there, for example. If a person wants to go to group training, then a monthly subscription costs more. It seems to me that 1,800 (one thousand eight hundred) rubles per month is a very good price. And I also do yoga. I go to a studio in my area, and I usually buy a membership there too. But I will tell you the cost of one lesson: one
12:15 group yoga lesson is 1,100 (one thousand one hundred) rubles. This lesson is 90 (ninety) minutes long. But if you buy a subscription for 4 (four), 6 (six), 8 (eight), 10 (ten) classes, then you get a good discount. The next part is home internet and telephone. It seems to me that home Internet in Russia is quite good . For example, in my area home Internet costs 600 (six hundred) rubles per month. And my husband and I can work from home at the same time . We can have calls and still have good internet. Sometimes, of course, there may be some problems, when the weather is bad or something else, but overall I am happy with my Internet.
13:06 I pay about 650 (six hundred) rubles a month for my phone. At the same time, I can call as many times as I want, that is, I have no limit. I have a limit on SMS, but I never send them. And I have a limit on the Internet, but I have never in my life run out of it. That is, there are so many gigabytes there that I, using the Internet very often, mobile Internet, have never used up this amount of gigabytes. I don't even know what my limit is, so I'm also quite happy with it. Next, let's talk about public
13:55 transport. In Moscow there is a metro, there are buses, there are trams, but most often, for example, I use the metro. Although it is worth saying that the cost of the metro, bus and tram is the same, because usually you buy the same ticket for any type of transport. I specifically looked at what our current tariffs are. If you want to buy just one ticket for one trip, it will cost 80 (eighty) rubles. You can use this for metro, bus, tram. But there is a better option: you can buy this card – “Troika”.
14:42 And if you put money on it, you can buy each trip cheaper. With this card, each trip costs 67 (sixty) rubles, meaning you save 13 (thirteen) rubles. This card is inexpensive. I don't remember how much, but I'll check and show it here on the screen. If, for example, you came to Russia to travel, you want to save money, you can buy this card, use it, and then, at the end of your trip, you can return it – and you will be given back the money you paid for it. It's very convenient. In St. Petersburg, for example, there is also such a
15:27 card - it is called "Podorozhnik". In Moscow – Troika, in St. Petersburg – Podorozhnik. It's the same system, so remember if you're going to Russia. Of course, people who work and, for example, often use the metro every day, they usually buy monthly passes. And I will now show you the prices of different subscriptions. If you are interested, you can stop the video and read carefully how much the different ticket options cost . That's all about public transport. Perhaps one could say a little more about taxis, although this is quite complicated. because the cost of a taxi usually depends on
16:16 what time of day or night you are traveling, what type of car you order, where you are traveling, what the weather is like outside. But I will just say that, for example, from my home to the airport – to a distant airport – I travel for about 50 (fifty) minutes, and for a 50 (fifty) minute trip I usually pay 2,500 (two thousand five hundred) rubles or 3,000 (three thousand) rubles. But this depends, again, on the situation on the road, the weather, and so on. In general, people are now complaining about the cost of taxis. They say that it has become very expensive. I can't evaluate this objectively because I use
17:07 taxis mainly when I go to airports. It seems to me that over, for example, 10 (ten) years, of course, the price has increased significantly, but, in principle, taxis to airports have always been quite expensive. And, perhaps, that’s all I wanted to tell you. I hope you enjoyed this video and found it interesting to know what and how much things cost in Russia now. Write your comments, write questions, maybe I forgot to tell you about something. And be sure to tell us how much it costs in your country, it would be interesting to know. I wish you good luck in learning Russian, and we will see each other, as always, in 2 (two) weeks. Best wishes. Bye!
