Russians Allocate 3 Billion for School Preparation

majority of customers opted for colored pencils, ballpoint pens, and drawing pads

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2025 September 13 . 2:29 AM

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Russians Invested Three Billion Dollars in School Developments

Russians Allocate 3 Billion for School Preparation

In August 2025, Russian families spent an average of 410 rubles on school supplies, marking a 12.64% increase from the previous year. This spending represents a 1 billion ruble increase from the same period in 2020.

Looking back at August 2021, Russians spent 3 billion rubles on school supplies on two major marketplaces. The prices of some school supplies, such as simple pencils and watercolors, experienced a decrease in August 2021, with pencils seeing a 6.6% drop and watercolors a 5.02% decrease.

The most popular school supplies in August 2021 were colored pencils, ballpoint pens, and sketchbooks. However, no information is available about the types of school supplies that were popular in August 2025.

School supplies sales grew by 30.8% compared to the same month the previous year, and revenue from these sales increased by 48.4% compared to the same month in 2024. Regrettably, there is no data available about school supplies sales on the two largest marketplaces in Russia for August 2026, nor about any increase compared to the same period in the previous year.

While school supplies sales are on the rise, the city of Biysk is facing a shortage of teachers. Biysk requires hiring 150 new teachers to meet the demand. No information is provided about the demographics of the buyers or the locations where the sales took place.

It is not specified which two major marketplaces the school supplies sales data refers to. Additionally, no information is given about the overall sales of school supplies for the years 2021 and 2025, nor about school supplies sales data for any other months in these years.