INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE OF RUSSIA

Text by: Päivi Karhunen
The Centre for Russia and the Baltic, LTT Institute for Market and Transition, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration
September 2001

The following chart illustrates the structure of the industrial production as of January-February 2001.

The industrial production of Russia is dominated by heavy industries. The two largest industrial sectors are the fuel industry and the machine-building and metalwork industry, which together account for almost 40 % of total industrial production. The share of consumer industries, such as light industry and the food industry, totals only 14 %.