What kind of fruit grows in Russia?

Russian dacha gardens typically include an abundance of perennial crops, especially berries and other small fruits. It is not unusual for Russian gardens to include six or more fruits, including currants, apples, raspberries, gooseberries, plums, strawberries and pears.Feb 24, 2012 read more

Crops are concentrated in European Russia, where over 91% of all fruit was produced last year. Each of the main producing regions, Samara and Saratov oblasts, Krasnodar Kray, Voronezh, Lipetsk, Volgograd and Moscow oblasts, produced over one million MT of seed type fruits last season, or 43% of Russia's crop. read more

in the summer (July-September) when the market is full of cheap local fruits from Russia, Moldova, Ukraine and the Central Asia republics, as well as the Middle East. In 2013, Russia bought around €1 076 million worth of fresh and processed fruit and €769 million worth of fresh and processed vegetables. read more

On my watch, during Soviet times (until 1991), such fruits as cherry, apples, pears, cherry, strawberry, blueberry etc. were available as fresh mostly in summer time. Otherwise, you could buy most of them dried. read more