At the end of 2013, the Happiness Index project summed up results, tracking open data from social networks and news portals since spring and automatically ranking Russias happiest cities. Irkutsk made the top ten.

At the end of December, the results for 2013 were summed up for the “Happiness Index” project, created with the support of VTB Bank. The project launched in the spring of this year. The developers monitor and analyze open data from social networks and news portals, and the project’s system automatically compiles a ranking of the happiest cities in Russia. Irkutsk made it into the top ten Russian cities whose residents are most satisfied with life. According to the results of the outgoing year, the happiest were Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk, Naberezhnye Chelny, and Arkhangelsk.