MOSCOW, July 8. /TASS/. The Russian Field research center has recorded a decline in the share of Russians with savings, with 38% of respondents reporting accumulations in late May-early June 2026, down from 57% in September 2025.
Meanwhile, the proportion of Russians without savings has risen from 42% to 60%, according to the company's research obtained by TASS.
According to the poll, savings are most frequently held by young people aged 18-29 (49%), residents of Moscow (50%) and St. Petersburg (47%), inhabitants of large and medium-sized cities (43%), Russians with higher education (48%), and affluent respondents (56%). Among those with savings, 43% could maintain their customary standard of living for one to six months, while another 39% could do so for over six months. Additionally, 8% reported that their savings would last a month at most, while 0.5% said they would last less than a week.
On average, savers could live on their accumulations for 5.7 months, though the median value stands at 3.5 months.
"This means that for half of Russians with savings, their financial cushion lasts less than three and a half months," the report says.
