Survey of Current Business (October 2022 - January 2023)

Sergey P. Aukutsionek – Head of 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 – 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 – 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.

In October 2022, the level of the capacity utilization rate reached its maximum value for the entire history of observations – 89%. The level of the labor utilization rate was also quite high – 95% – which is in the top three «highs» within 30 years. The level of stocks of unsold finished products, if we take the normal level as 100%, had been declining for the third month in a row and reached in October 2022 a rather low value for itself – 76%. Whereas the level of orders increased by considerable 10 points within month and reached 105% – the highest value since 1991. The share of enterprises in «good» or «normal» financial condition was 90%, which is the best result of this year, and it was higher only once – in December 2018. The share of enterprises that have no debt to banks and are not expected to have one in the next three months reached 51% – the maximum for 2 years.

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.