Sverdlovsk Region was the third most active car-buying part of Russia in the first half of 2010, preceded only by Moscow and Saint Petersburg. The share of new foreign cars sold on the Russian market to customers based in Sverdlovsk Region came to 3.6% of all the sales, or 18,800 automobiles, Avtostat Agency’s analysts state in their monthly report on the country’s car market.

Tyumen Region, with its 3% share of the Russian market (15,500 automobiles), and Krasnodar Territory, with its 2.9% share (15,200 automobiles), thus proved the fourth and the fifth most active automobile-buying regions. They were followed by the Republic of Tatarstan, with its 2.8% share of the country’s market (14,600 cars) on Russia’s Top 25 car-buying regions list for the first half of 2010.