Survey of Current Business (November 2021 – February 2022)

Sergey P. Aukutsionek – Head of the Center for Transition Economy Studies, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Economic Sciences (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Andrey S. Yegorov – Senior Researcher of the Center for Transition Economy Studies, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Economic Sciences (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Inessa A. Bachirova – Senior Researcher of the Center for Transition Economy Studies, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Tatyana V. Serzhantova – Senior Researcher of the Center for Transition Economy Studies, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

November 2021 turned out to be very similar to the previous month in the majority of indicators. Although the current index of prices for purchased products and the similar index of expected in three months changes have slightly decreased, they are still in the zone of maximum values in the entire history of observations. The diffusion index of the expected in three months changes in the order-book level, which added 14 points in a month, looked more optimistic than others. The «investment boom» recorded among the REB’s respondents, which occurred in the middle of 2021, seems to be coming to an end: the share of enterprises that do not purchase equipment for two or more months in a row has reached 30% – the maximum value for the last 10 months.

Key words: Russia, industry, industrial enterprises, price level, wages, employment, output, investment, indebtedness to banks, order-book level, stocks of finished products, capacity utilization rate, financial situation, production restrictive factors.

JEL-codes: D22, D24, G31, L23, P23.