Krakow Sandwich Index

KP newspaper conducted an interesting research – a fun alternative to Economist BigMac index. All around the country at run down railroad cafes KP correspondents checked prices for a standard Russian junk food – open sandwich with Krakow sausage. Then they divided an average income in the region by the price of the sandwich. The result – how many Krakow sausage sandwiches an average person can afford. The “richest” cities are Cheliabinsk (the Ural Mountatins) and Magadan (gold miners’ outpost in Eastern Siberia). The “poorest” cities are Vladimir and Nizhni Novgorod. As expected Muscovites are not among those who can enjoy tons of Krakow sausage sandwiches – its price in Moscow is outrageously high (25 rubles = almost $1).

Captions: first line of numbers – average income a month (in rubles); second line of numbers – price of a Krakow sausage sandwich (in rubles); bottom line – how many sandwiches a resident of the region can afford to eat every month.