the Official announcement of period non-working days due to the pandemic had slowed but not stopped the country’s economic development. Statistics show that many companies (Rosstat, more than half), continued to work during this period.
Quarantine restrictions heaviest negative impact on the volume of production of clothing, footwear, household appliances, computers, vehicles and manufactured goods. The company did not work, but the existing outlets were focused on the sale of commodities, mainly food products. The largest drop was demonstrated: manufacture of transport by 60.2%, production of leather and leather articles – by 45.4%.
the Growth in manufacturing is shown by enterprises producing medicines and materials for medical purposes, which is not surprising, given the pandemic and the need to increase production of means of individual protection. Compared to April last year, production grew by 13.5%, and with respect to the March figures, the increase was 20%. Separately, the issue of workwear, which includes protective suits for doctors, increased 96.6%.
Also introduced a regime of self-isolation can be linked to increasing or maintaining performance in agriculture and food production. Most increased the production of canned meat – by 39.9%, sunflower oil – by 30.8%, and different types of flour is 14.2%.
In the field of mining, which was one of the main drivers of industrial production, the strongest decline has shown production of natural gas 16.2%. In this case, the trend is not touched liquefied natural gas (LNG), production of which increased by 4.5%. Additionally, this region increased coal production by 3.1%, and petroleum gas – by 2.5%.
Despite the fall in demand and oil prices, compared to April of last year, its production increased by 0.2%. But it is worth considering that in 2019, Russia was bound by the terms of the deal, OPEC+, and in April of this year, on the contrary, increased its production after the breakup of the old agreement to reduce production. It is noteworthy that in comparison with last year also increased production of petroleum products and chemicals at 0.7 and 2.4%, respectively. However, if to compare with March 2020, it also recorded a decrease by 12.3 and 7.2%.
