The share of non-cash payments in Russia increased by 5% over the year

This was reported by the Izvestia newspaper with reference to a study by the Skrepka service.

It turned out that 55% of Russians use plastic cards to pay for purchases in offline stores, 21% - contactless payments, 24% - cash.

Residents of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (84%), Khabarovsk Krai (83%), Chelyabinsk Oblast and St. Petersburg (79% each), Tyumen Oblast and Moscow (78% each) were recognized as the most active users of contactless payments.

The most "cash" regions included the Saratov region (56%), Mari El (57%), Stavropolye (61%) and Krasnodar Territory (64%).

Earlier, the head of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, Anatoly Aksakov, in an interview with FAN, commented on the work on creating a digital ruble.