Minsk vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Minsk	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$727	$765
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1874	$1946
🏠 One person rent	$352	$377
🏘️ Family rent	$652	$769
🍽️ Food expenses	$251	$256
🚐 Transport expenses	$46.5	$59.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$686	$696
😷 Air quality	Good	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	31 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	61	46
😀 Quality of life	67	60
🏙️ Population	1.99M	1.47M

The cost of living in Minsk is 5% less expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 6769th and 6596th ($727 vs $765) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 14th in Belarus and Russia, respectively. Check Belarus vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.9 months in Minsk compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Minsk ranked 1st best city to live in Belarus vs Yekaterinburg ranked 8th in Russia, while ranked 3750th and 5209th 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	$9.19	$8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$30.8	$42.7
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$5.31	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.21	$1.72
☕ Cappuccino	$1.69	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.71	$0.92
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$423	$427
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$280	$273
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$818	$923
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$534	$595
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$32.9	$65.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$50.3	$100
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$10.6	$7.81
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	14.66%	14.85%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1925	$2157
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1211	$1318
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.27	$0.38
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$15.4	$28.6
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$3.73	$5.03
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.76	$0.64
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.74	$0.89
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.59	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.2	$1.2
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.28	$1.52
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.31	$9.51
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.92	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.72	$8.36
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.08	$1.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.71	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.79	$1.93
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.28	$2.43
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.41	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.57	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.39	$0.38
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.29	$1.83
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$7.59	$5.75
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.93	$0.83
🚬 Cigarette pack	$1.82	$2.26
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$6.38	$3.6
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$2.66	$3.34
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.07	$0.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.6	$1.36
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$31.8	$30
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$4.6	$4.59
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$12.9	$15.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$4.76	$4.83
👖 Brand Jeans	$55.5	$61.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$111	$84.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$330	$267
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$10220	$4946

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Cities near Minsk

Distance	City	Cost of living
72 km or 44 mi	Barysaw	$570
136 km or 85 mi	Baranavichy	$517
139 km or 86 mi	Babruysk	$438
171 km or 107 mi	Vilnius	$1261
182 km or 113 mi	Mogilev	$474
218 km or 135 mi	Utena	$936
220 km or 137 mi	Vitebsk	$300
221 km or 137 mi	Pinsk	$435
229 km or 142 mi	Daugavpils	$843
235 km or 146 mi	Alytus	$850
247 km or 154 mi	Grodno	$385
249 km or 155 mi	Jonava	$847
260 km or 161 mi	Kaunas	$1150
280 km or 174 mi	Gomel	$440
283 km or 176 mi	Marijampole	$882
288 km or 179 mi	Panevezys	$950
290 km or 180 mi	Rezekne	$761
303 km or 188 mi	Suwalki	$1016
303 km or 189 mi	Bialystok	$935
307 km or 191 mi	Smolensk	$479
308 km or 191 mi	Jekabpils	$840
330 km or 205 mi	Brest	$469
342 km or 212 mi	Elk	$1025
353 km or 219 mi	Siauliai	$953
363 km or 226 mi	Biala Podlaska	$965
367 km or 228 mi	Chernihiv	$433
371 km or 231 mi	Lomza	$964
374 km or 232 mi	Ogre	$933
376 km or 233 mi	Rivne	$394
382 km or 238 mi	Lutsk	$510
390 km or 243 mi	Jelgava	$804
401 km or 249 mi	Siedlce	$882
403 km or 250 mi	Riga	$1113
406 km or 252 mi	Ostroleka	$1025
412 km or 256 mi	Zhytomyr	$549
413 km or 257 mi	Chelm	$1107
416 km or 259 mi	Jurmala	$1299
426 km or 265 mi	Valmiera	$835
427 km or 265 mi	Mazeikiai	$983
434 km or 269 mi	Kyiv	$850

Cities near Yekaterinburg

Distance	City	Cost of living
95 km or 59 mi	Municipal Formation of the Kamensk-Uralsky	$646
96 km or 59 mi	Kamensk-Uralsky	$648
126 km or 78 mi	Nizhny Tagil	$592
194 km or 120 mi	Zlatoust	$600
194 km or 121 mi	Chelyabinsk	$617
201 km or 125 mi	Miass	$596
291 km or 181 mi	Perm	$595
302 km or 188 mi	Tyumen	$765
333 km or 207 mi	Kurgan	$531
371 km or 231 mi	Ufa	$672
396 km or 246 mi	Magnitogorsk	$506
447 km or 277 mi	Kostanay	$710
448 km or 278 mi	Izhevsk	$637
461 km or 287 mi	Sterlitamak	$454
486 km or 302 mi	Salavat	$538
524 km or 326 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$613
558 km or 346 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$580
559 km or 348 mi	Almetyevsk	$593
577 km or 358 mi	Petropavl	$557
639 km or 397 mi	Orsk	$509
666 km or 414 mi	Orenburg	$534
678 km or 421 mi	Kirov	$508
685 km or 426 mi	Kokshetau	$619
716 km or 445 mi	Kazan	$734
760 km or 473 mi	Aktobe	$548
771 km or 479 mi	Syktyvkar	$569
773 km or 480 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$537
780 km or 485 mi	Samara	$656
798 km or 496 mi	Tolyatti	$612
816 km or 507 mi	Ulyanovsk	$559
821 km or 510 mi	Cheboksary	$592
823 km or 511 mi	Omsk	$631
865 km or 537 mi	Oral	$549
872 km or 542 mi	Syzran	$590
882 km or 548 mi	Surgut	$654
949 km or 590 mi	Nur-Sultan	$770
982 km or 610 mi	Balakovo	$605
1011 km or 628 mi	Saransk	$438
1014 km or 630 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$717
1023 km or 636 mi	Nizhnevartovsk	$658