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Official Rosstat data contradict the description of these regions as “Russia’s poorest.”

• Rosstat’s regional GRP-per-capita table shows Sakhalin Oblast and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug with extremely high output per person: the Rosstat page snippet lists Sakhalin Oblast at 81,970.0 and Chukotka at 114,073.1 (thousand rubles), which places them among Russia’s richest regions by this metric.
• Rosstat wage data for 2024 also show these are not poor regions in income terms. A Rosstat regional wage release lists Chukotka at 184,970 rubles average monthly pay and Magadan at 153,759.8 rubles—among the highest in the country.
• Another official Rosstat publication on wages below the subsistence minimum shows Sakhalin (0.4%) and Magadan (0.5%) among the lowest shares in Russia in 2023, while genuinely poorer regions such as Dagestan (12.5%) and Kabardino-Balkaria (12.6%) were far worse.

The Jewish Autonomous Oblast has weaker indicators than Chukotka or Sakhalin, but the claim as written labels all four regions as “Russia’s poorest,” and that is false. At minimum, Chukotka, Sakhalin, and Magadan are clearly not among Russia’s poorest regions by Rosstat’s own income/output indicators.