A Strike Has Begun In Russia's Tyva
- 17.02.2026, 11:56
Because of unpaid wages.
In the Russian city of Kyzyl, bus drivers of Avtokolonna 17, a carrier owned by the mayor's office, did not go to work because of unpaid salaries, Channel 108 reported. The employees have not received money for January. The total amount of debt amounted to 11 million rubles. The director of the company said he plans to transfer 2.6 million rubles to the drivers, writes The Moscow Times.
The Kyzyl administration specified that part of the wages will be paid on February 17, and the rest by the end of the current week. The authorities have engaged private carriers to provide passenger transportation on the routes that lost buses due to the drivers' strike. Officials assured that the flights were closed, including in the direction of Vavilinsky Zaton, where most of the complaints of residents came from.
According to "Contour.Focus", "Avtokolonna 17" is fully owned by the mayor's office of Kyzyl. The company is headed by Amir Oorzhak. In 2024, its revenue amounted to about 150 million rubles, and net loss - 1.6 million. There are no indicators for last year.
According to Rosstat data, at the end of 2025, overdue wage arrears in Russia increased 2.3 times and reached 2.077 billion rubles. In monetary terms, the increase in non-payments for the year - 1.134 billion rubles - broke the record of 2016, when debts added 1.566 billion rubles. And in relative terms (by 127%), the jump was unprecedented in 20 years of available statistics.
Budget employees are not paid money on time because of the problems of the regions, which last year received a record deficit in local budgets since 2011 - 1.5 trillion rubles, according to estimates by Alfa Bank. Teachers and doctors in the Kemerovo region, medical workers in Khakassia, firefighters in the Trans-Baikal Territory, as well as builders of the M-12 federal highway in Bashkiria and workers at the Kingisepp machine-building plant, which fulfills orders for the navy and the Rosgvardia, have faced non-payment and delays.