Minsk vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 14, 2025

	Minsk	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$735	$962
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1851	$2318
🏠 One person rent	$356	$492
🏘️ Family rent	$619	$852
🍽️ Food expenses	$261	$322
🚐 Transport expenses	$46.8	$58.2
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$549	$848
😷 Air quality	Good	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	31 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	61	46
😀 Quality of life	69	64
🏙️ Population	2M	1.47M

The cost of living in Minsk is 24% less expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 6924th and 5881st ($735 vs $962) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 6th in Belarus and Russia, respectively. Check Belarus vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.7 months in Minsk compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Minsk ranked 1st best city to live in Belarus vs Yekaterinburg ranked 6th in Russia, while ranked 4343rd and 5334th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Minsk vs Yekaterinburg

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	Minsk	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$9.98	$12.8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$33.8	$48.9
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$5.86	$6.17
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.18	$1.85
☕ Cappuccino	$1.72	$2.86
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.62	$1.44
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$434	$557
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$286	$363
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$767	$990
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$511	$651
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$30.8	$80.4
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$47.6	$123
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$9.65	$9.66
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	15.42%	17.52%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$2017	$2565
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1259	$1410
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.3	$0.4
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$15	$24.5
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$3.87	$5.34
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.76	$0.72
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.73	$1.05
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.58	$0.64
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.14	$1.37
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.32	$1.56
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.35	$12.8
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.14	$4.5
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.88	$10.7
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.23	$1.91
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.66	$1.83
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.83	$2.18
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.14	$2.77
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.53	$0.69
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.59	$0.74
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.38	$0.48
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.22	$2.01
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$7.4	$7.09
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.94	$1.09
🚬 Cigarette pack	$1.95	$3.08
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$5.73	$3.97
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$3.47	$3.62
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.04	$0.78
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.93	$1.5
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$30.1	$44.1
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$4.43	$4.9
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$13	$18
💇 Haircut, simple	$4.32	$5.56
👖 Brand Jeans	$41.2	$81.5
👟 Brand Sneakers	$107	$106
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$307	$451
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$11271	$7319

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Cities near Minsk

Distance	City	Cost of living
72 km or 44 mi	Barysaw	$561
136 km or 85 mi	Baranavichy	$517
139 km or 86 mi	Babruysk	$406
171 km or 107 mi	Vilnius	$1414
182 km or 113 mi	Mogilev	$545
218 km or 135 mi	Utena	$974
220 km or 137 mi	Vitebsk	$293
221 km or 137 mi	Pinsk	$426
229 km or 142 mi	Daugavpils	$929
235 km or 146 mi	Alytus	$883
247 km or 154 mi	Grodno	$349
249 km or 155 mi	Jonava	$865
260 km or 161 mi	Kaunas	$1334
280 km or 174 mi	Gomel	$475
283 km or 176 mi	Marijampole	$920
288 km or 179 mi	Panevezys	$988
290 km or 180 mi	Rezekne	$840
303 km or 188 mi	Suwalki	$1113
303 km or 189 mi	Bialystok	$1148
307 km or 191 mi	Smolensk	$547
308 km or 191 mi	Jekabpils	$894
330 km or 205 mi	Brest	$528
342 km or 212 mi	Elk	$1125
353 km or 219 mi	Siauliai	$967
363 km or 226 mi	Biala Podlaska	$1079
367 km or 228 mi	Chernihiv	$516
371 km or 231 mi	Lomza	$993
374 km or 232 mi	Ogre	$1046
376 km or 233 mi	Rivne	$439
382 km or 238 mi	Lutsk	$546
390 km or 243 mi	Jelgava	$889
401 km or 249 mi	Siedlce	$1009
403 km or 250 mi	Riga	$1270
406 km or 252 mi	Ostroleka	$1113
412 km or 256 mi	Zhytomyr	$586
413 km or 257 mi	Chelm	$1185
416 km or 259 mi	Jurmala	$1419
426 km or 265 mi	Valmiera	$928
427 km or 265 mi	Mazeikiai	$864
434 km or 269 mi	Kyiv	$879

Cities near Yekaterinburg

Distance	City	Cost of living
95 km or 59 mi	Municipal Formation of the Kamensk-Uralsky	$828
96 km or 59 mi	Kamensk-Uralsky	$821
126 km or 78 mi	Nizhny Tagil	$843
194 km or 120 mi	Zlatoust	$754
194 km or 121 mi	Chelyabinsk	$829
201 km or 125 mi	Miass	$763
291 km or 181 mi	Perm	$714
302 km or 188 mi	Tyumen	$909
333 km or 207 mi	Kurgan	$675
371 km or 231 mi	Ufa	$802
396 km or 246 mi	Magnitogorsk	$656
447 km or 277 mi	Kostanay	$681
448 km or 278 mi	Izhevsk	$635
461 km or 287 mi	Sterlitamak	$698
486 km or 302 mi	Salavat	$725
524 km or 326 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$755
558 km or 346 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$681
559 km or 348 mi	Almetyevsk	$709
577 km or 358 mi	Petropavl	$520
639 km or 397 mi	Orsk	$563
666 km or 414 mi	Orenburg	$695
678 km or 421 mi	Kirov	$536
685 km or 426 mi	Kokshetau	$685
716 km or 445 mi	Kazan	$868
760 km or 473 mi	Aktobe	$519
771 km or 479 mi	Syktyvkar	$620
773 km or 480 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$693
780 km or 485 mi	Samara	$796
798 km or 496 mi	Tolyatti	$686
816 km or 507 mi	Ulyanovsk	$641
821 km or 510 mi	Cheboksary	$772
823 km or 511 mi	Omsk	$786
865 km or 537 mi	Oral	$548
872 km or 542 mi	Syzran	$692
882 km or 548 mi	Surgut	$767
949 km or 590 mi	Nur-Sultan	$729
982 km or 610 mi	Balakovo	$658
1011 km or 628 mi	Saransk	$719
1014 km or 630 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$882
1023 km or 636 mi	Nizhnevartovsk	$617