Russia has currently the fastest growing fruit production in the East. It’s apple market of annually 2.6–4.3 million t comprises (a) 0.9–1.1 million t from commercial orchards, (b) 800,000 t or 2.5 million t from private gardens depending on data source, and (c) ca. 1.3 million t (2016) but only 0.7 million t (2017) apple imports from Serbia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Moldavia, Tadzhikistan, Azerbaijan and Belarus as well as China, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa etc.