[2] According to Pavel Malkov, head of Rosstat, the budget allocated for the 2020 census was 33 billion rubles.

The main purpose was the development and testing of software and methodological, organizational and technological issues of the 2020 Census, taking into account the use of new methods of collecting information.

In August 2019, in preparation for the 2020 census, work began to update the address lists in cities and rural areas.

[11] Based on the work of the registrars, the exact number of houses in each city and their location were determined.

So, thanks to the registrars, a previously not documented village of Yozhikovo was "discovered" in Ruzsky District and two new ones in Udmurtia: Rodniki and Kurtekovo; in Kaluga Oblast more than 35,000 new addresses were recorded.

For the first time, there was an opportunity to fill the census form on the portal of public services (Gosuslugi) until November 8.