In 1956, under Nikita Khrushchev, the USSR began to collect data on suicides for the entire population of the country.
[6] For a couple of years, the number of suicides fell, but the deterioration of the socio-economic situation of the country by the end of the 1980s reversed the trend.
[7] The dissolution of the Soviet Union, market reforms, the First Chechen War, and falling incomes among the population resulted in an increase in suicide mortality, reaching peak levels in 1994 and 1995.
The decline in strong and popular vodka sales is similar to the decrease in the number of suicides in the country.
[9] Eighteen regions have a suicide rate classified as low, including the two main cities of Russia: Moscow and Saint Petersburg.