72.4%

of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region residents who have a higher education see themselves primarily as Europeans in a broad sense.

Among residents who have a secondary education, the figure is much lower, with only 51.4% identifying themselves first as Europeans and only then as residents of their native city.

These data are presented in a report by Igor Okunev, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at HSE, and Aleksey Domanov, Research Assistant at the HSE Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (LCSR).

The report’s authors studied the features of spatial identity of residents in St. Petersburg, Vyborg and Kronstadt. Respondents were asked, for example, about whether they consider themselves Europeans, how often they discuss events taking place in Europe, which products they prefer to buy, and which countries they travel to.

More about the results of the study will be published on December 12 on the OPEC.ru website (in Russian).