Economics · Mariupol

Budget dynamics of occupied Mariupol, 2024 – Q1 2025

Last updated: May 2026

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McGlynn, J. et al. (2026). Mariupol Budget Dynamics Q1 2025. TOT Insights / King's College London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20307465

Income, expenditure, and transfer dependency - cumulative reporting periods, million roubles

Full-year income (2024)

7,370 m RUB

total budget income

Own-source income share

~29%

of total income, full year 2024 · TOT Insights analysis

Transfer dependency

~71%

Mariupol municipal income from Russian budget transfers (TOT Insights analysis)

Regional (occupied oblast) average: 80–90%¹, higher than city level; both confirm structural dependency on Moscow transfers.

Mariupol generates less than a third of its own budget income. The remainder flows from Russian federal transfers²: structural fiscal dependency that locks the city's administration into the Russian budgetary system and makes genuine financial autonomy functionally impossible (TOT Insights analysis¹).

Total income

Own-source income

Expenditure

Federal transfers

Reporting periods are cumulative within the 2024 financial year: Q1 = January–March 2024; H1 = January–June; 9 months = January–September; full year = January–December 2024. Q1 2025 resets to January–March 2025. The visible drop from full-year 2024 to Q1 2025 reflects the reset to a new annual cycle, not a contraction in budget activity. Values are in Russian roubles (million). Own-source income includes local taxes and fees generated within Mariupol;³ transfers are Russian federal subventions and subsidies.

TOT Insights · Ukraine & Russia Programme, CSNS / King's College London · Source: Mariupol city district budget execution reports, 2024 (Q1, H1, 9 months, full year) and Q1 2025; occupation administration source

Notes

Between 80% and 90% of the regional budgets in occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson were subsidised by Moscow in 2023. The Moscow Times (citing Forbes), themoscowtimes.com.
The occupied territories received 483 billion rubles in non-reciprocal federal transfers in 2023; subsidies to the four regions were around 513 billion rubles in 2023, projected to fall to approximately 303 billion in 2024. The Bell, thebell.io; The Moscow Times (as [1]).
Russia collected 118 billion rubles in taxes from the occupied territories in January–September 2024, up 22% year on year, reflecting integration into the Russian fiscal system. The Moscow Times (citing RBC), themoscowtimes.com.