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65 United Russia9 Elected by the legislature4 No party3 Communist Party2 Appointed
Sources: Rosstat's municipal database (wages, employees, population) as mirrored by tochno.st; Federal Tax Service (register of small and medium businesses); Bank of Russia (mortgage lending by region); OECD (regional accounts to 2019); BIS (consumer prices); World Bank (national accounts, unemployment, Worldwide Governance Indicators), Natural Earth, V-Dem Institute, Transparency International, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons; office-holders checked against the regions' and cities' official lists. CreditsPrivacy

Oleg Melnichenko (United Russia) has been Governor of Penza Oblast since 26 Mar 2021. Since Oleg Melnichenko took office in March 2021, the real average wage has climbed 5.4% a year, against +5.0% for Russia. Among the 63 regions with a year or more of figures, Penza Oblast ranks 29th on pay growth and 44th of 67 on jobs growth. Over the same months Russia's real new mortgages dropped 5.8% a year; Penza Oblast's fell sharply, by 6.7%; the gap was widest in Jun 2024, +29.8% against +24.7%. Small-business jobs are down 0.8% since day zero (0.2% a year).

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