It is difficult to write about how ordinary people live in Russia. Because it hurts the soul ... Many do not live, but survive. Especially those who are not used to dodging, to deceive others, to profit from someone else's misfortune.
The average earnings of Russians according to official figures
So how do ordinary people live in Russia? Differently. The standard of living depends on income. And here a person who sets himself the task of finding out how ordinary people live in Russia will be covered by a wave of bewilderment.
The statistics of the Federal Service gives an entirely acceptable figure of 32,600 rubles. Indeed, with that kind of money you can live with dignity. But this is the average income that is obtained if we divide all the incomes of people, both ordinary and rich, by the total number. That is, someone is fattening, receiving one hundred thousand a month, while someone, and most of them, are content with little. Hence the conclusion suggests itself that it is impossible to draw a real picture of how ordinary people live in Russia based on these data.
Real official salaries of Russian residents
However, there are other data by which one can imagine how much ordinary people get for their work.
For example, if you calculate the salary based on the proposals of employers, taking into account the numbers indicated for advertising purposes, then on average it will be 27,521 rubles. By the way, these data cannot be trusted either. Indeed, there is a "luring" of people, an exaggeration of real incomes. In many places, a fairly high average income is obtained due to the fact that most workers work in excess of the norm of working time, not at one rate.
An independent opinion poll shows a different figure, which ranges between 6,000 rubles and 18,000. And, oddly enough for people with normal incomes, such small wages, below the subsistence level, are far from rare in Russia. In the province, for example, the nanny of the kindergarten - the assistant teacher - can receive 5,000 rubles. A school cleaner is offered for a full time job ... as much as 7,000 rubles! The janitor can get a job with earnings from 3,000 to 9,000 rubles, again, if you believe the employers who are applying for jobs.
So make a conclusion about how a simple person lives in Russia, gets out, makes ends meet, getting for the work an amount that is less than the cost of living.
Estimated monthly housing costs
The Russian gives the lion's share of the money earned to pay for utilities. To live in a one-room apartment, a Russian citizen must pay from 1,500 rubles or more monthly.
A separate point is electricity, a television antenna, and the Internet. And this is about 1000 rubles.
By the way, many tenants receive receipts for the additional payment of major repairs of the house in which they live. Although a lot of materials are published on the Internet that this is being done illegally. It states that the column “repair” is already included in the total amount of the housing fee. Moreover, in many houses the condition leaves much to be desired. Photographs of houses in neighborhoods of people who are not so wealthy to buy luxury housing clearly demonstrate how a simple person lives in Russia.
Fare
The constantly increasing fare in public transport is also not encouraging. There are, of course, certain benefits established for senior citizens, schoolchildren, students, and war veterans. But since a simple person lives in Russia, he is often forced to use not municipal transport, which is very difficult to wait for, especially at rush hour, but private. And there all these benefits are fiction.
As a result, every day, for example, in Samara, from June 1, 2015, a mother who takes her child to school and then hurries to work will leave (23 * 2) * 2 (the road to the child care institution and back) + 23 * 2 ( way to work) = 168 rubles. With a six-day work week, this will result in a tidy sum of 4,032 rubles. And if the kid still attends some sections or circles, a music or dance school, which are far from home, then transportation costs are even higher.
Is childhood a carefree time?
Not every child can get into the municipal kindergarten. Many children's institutions from those still surviving after the Soviet regime require (behind the scenes) an entry fee that ranges from 5 to 50 thousand rubles. Although, if mom carefully stood in line while still pregnant, the probability of a four-year-old getting into a children's organized group increases.
Pupils also have to constantly pay for repairs or for security. In some places, requisitions are even imposed on the salary of cleaners. Despite the decrees, which say that one should not follow the leadership of schools and pay them, parents choose the least of two evils, that is, they pay because the teachers' dislike falls on the children of “malicious evaders”. They are simply terrorized by constant humiliation and nit-picking.
How do older people live in Russia?
It is sad to realize that after 45 getting a well-paid job is very difficult. It is especially difficult in this regard for women. In the search for employees, employers often indicate the age limits.
Abroad, this fact would be recognized as discrimination and could appear in court proceedings. For Russians, this has long been the norm. Therefore, many educated, qualified workers in this category (women over 45) are forced to apply their skills and knowledge with a floor rag in their hands or behind the counter of a private trader.
Our government, unfortunately, often turns a blind eye to the fact of how they live in Russia. Discussion of these issues is not that it is banned, but it is practically not put to the national arena.
Pension came - trouble! Open the gates to her ...
It gets worse when the retirement age comes. The media enthusiastically praise the Russian government for its care for the elderly: they add pensions, then they give out credit cards to the elderly. And all supposedly in openwork.
However, credit cards give pensioners the opportunity to “get through” in the event of a shortage of funds from pension to pension, you can only shop for them in stores. Naturally, the villagers often no longer take this opportunity. And when withdrawing money, such a huge percentage is immediately charged, and 25% per annum is charged for the entire amount spent. Good help to the old people, nothing to say. It seems that no one at the top even realizes how ordinary people live or survive in Russia, but they believe that everyone is satisfying, warm and joyful.
But if pensioners had a good life like this, they would not, on their own initiative, sit around shops and transport stops in any weather, offering passers-by some old little things, hand-made items, vegetables and flowers grown on their site. Do not think that older people do not know how to relax. It is unlikely that any of them would refuse a free ticket to a holiday home or sanatorium, a trip abroad or a trip on a motor ship along the Volga. But they don’t offer it, alas. But not everyone succeeds in gathering for such a vacation on their own.
My village is dying ...
It is impossible not to touch upon the problems of the rural outback, covering the question of how people live in Russia. The life of people there is difficult to such an extent that most of the townspeople cannot even imagine it. Almost no work, transport canceled, shops and medical posts closed. The Internet is often absent, and a television can broadcast only one or two programs. People are simply cut off from civilization. In any weather, one has to get bread and salt to a larger village five to six kilometers on foot.
Of course, this is not the case in all villages. However, in most small rural settlements, this is exactly the case. Speaking about how ordinary people live on the border of Russia and Belarus, one can say the same thing: most villages are abandoned, and people have to survive as it turns out.
Organization of leisure for children and adults
Russians have long been accustomed to taking care of themselves. They are tired of waiting for someone to repair the building in which they live for their money and take care of the beauty of the area around the houses. Therefore, it is often pleasing to the eye that the walls of porches painted by local craftsmen with their own hands. And the old women, creaking joints, hardly plant flowers in front of the houses, water the seedlings. And some even manage to equip playgrounds with amazing garbage crafts: swans from tires, sculptures from plastic bottles, houses from empty glass containers.
Speaking about how people live in Russia, one cannot ignore the question of their free time. If we compare the current state of affairs with the organization of leisure in the Soviet period, then the gain will not be for modernity. Free mugs are practically not functioning today, in which people of different ages can get together, engage in creativity and just chat.
Therefore, it is especially worth noting those rare organizations where altruists are still preserved, making efforts and spending their time free of charge to work with people. Such are, for example, literary associations, where experienced writers and poets conduct classes with beginners, share their best practices, and help promote the work of unrecognized talents.
Huge love and gratitude of people of various social levels enjoy festivals of art song and poetry, which are held by the public. Almost any person can come there and take part absolutely free of charge both in the image of a spectator and as an artist of his own works.