“In general, the lowest average prices for bread are in Perm and Nizhny Novgorod, the highest are in St. Petersburg,” RIA Novosti reports.
In addition, experts said that between September 2018 and September 2019, rye bread went up the most: 20% at an average price of 36 rubles.
The average price of wheat bread over the same period decreased by 4% to 27 rubles.
In August, the Federal State Statistics Service reported that in the first seven months of 2019, the cost of bread and bakery products in Russia increased by 7.7% compared to the same period in 2018.