Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sergey P. Aukutsionek Author-Workplace-Name: Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences Author-Name: Andrey S. Yegorov Author-Workplace-Name: Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences Author-Name: Inessa A. Bachirova Author-Workplace-Name: Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences Author-Name: Tatyana V. Serzhantova Author-Workplace-Name: Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences Title: Survey of Current Business (October 2022 – January 2023) Title: Хозяйственное обозрение (октябрь 2022 г. – январь 2023 г.) Abstract: In October 2022, the level of the capacity utilization rate reached its maximum value for the entire history of observations – 89%. The level of the labor utilization rate was also quite high – 95% – which is in the top three «highs» within 30 years. The level of stocks of unsold finished products, if we take the normal level as 100%, had been declining for the third month in a row and reached in October 2022 a rather low value for itself – 76%. Whereas the level of orders increased by considerable 10 points within month and reached 105% – the highest value since 1991. The share of enterprises in «good» or «normal» financial condition was 90%, which is the best result of this year, and it was higher only once – in December 2018. The share of enterprises that have no debt to banks and are not expected to have one in the next three months reached 51% – the maximum for 2 years. Keywords: Russia, industry, industrial enterprises, price level, wages, employment, output, investment, indebtedness to banks, order-book level, stocks of finished products, capacity utilization rate, financial situation, production restrictive factors Classification-JEL: D22, D24, G31, L23, P23 Journal: Russian Economic Developments Year: 2023 Issue: 1 Month: January Pages: 52-59 File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/recdev/r2307.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:gai:recdev:r2307