Average cinema ticket price in Russia 2018-2022

In Russia, the mean price of a cinema ticket exceeded 287 Russian rubles in 2022, marking a 2.4 percent increase from the previous year. To compare, in 2018, a cinema ticket across the country cost around 251 Russian rubles on average.

Is moviegoing popular in Russia?

Approximately 30 percent of Russians aged 18 to 30 years stated in a survey that they went to the movies at least a month in 2022. In the previous year, nearly 145 million people visited movie theaters in the country. Russia was behind many other countries in Europe by the number of cinema admissions per capita, which was measured at 0.6 in 2020. To compare, in Estonia, that figure was measured at 1.4 cinema visits per person.

Cinema establishments in Russia

The number of cinema sites in Russia has almost tripled over the last decade, peaking in 2022 at almost 2.2 thousand nationwide. To compare, in 2009, that figure was recorded at 738. Furthermore, Russia was the second leading country by the number of cinema screens in Europe. In 2021, the country counted 5.7 thousand cinema screens, being only superseded by France.