Novosibirsk is in second place - here parents' expenses amounted to 10.8 thousand rubles.
In Kazan and Samara, the purchase of everything a child needs for school cost the parents an average of 10.2 thousand rubles.
In St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk and Chelyabinsk, parents spent an average of 10 thousand rubles per child.
In Yekaterinburg, parents met an average of 9.8 thousand rubles, in Rostov-on-Don - 9.6 thousand rubles, in Nizhny Novgorod - 9.5 thousand rubles.
The average cost of collecting a schoolchild in Ufa was 9.3 thousand rubles, in Voronezh - 9.1 thousand rubles, in Volgograd and Perm - 9 thousand rubles each.
Compared to 2020, according to SuperJob, parental spending on the eve of September 1 in metropolitan areas grew by an average of 20%.
9 thousand parents of schoolchildren from cities with a population of more than 1 million people took part in the survey of the service for finding high-paying jobs SuperJob.
In Russia, on August 2, a lump sum payment of 10 thousand rubles for school-age children began.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the need to make payments for schoolchildren earlier than the deadline scheduled for August 16.
On July 18, it was reported that the Russian government allocated more than 204 billion rubles for payments to schoolchildren.