Development of the refrigeration industry in Russia (from 1910 to 1914)

Abstract

Statistics of those years and its analysis eloquently show that in the Russian Empire with its abundance of food producing areas there were rather high compared with the world prices for basic foodstuffs, such as meat, eggs, fruits and vegetables. So, meat cost 15-25 kopecks per pound (1 pood = 8 rubles), butter - 50-65 kopecks, eggs - 20-35 kopecks per dozen. Prices for New Zealand lamb in London ranged from 10 to 17 kopecks per pound, chilled North American beef was on average 17 kopecks per pound and frozen beef was 9-11 kopecks per pound.

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