The World of Apples

Apples of Russia

24 varieties in the atlas came from Russia. The oldest is Aport, dated late 18th century.

Map of where the apple varieties in the atlas came from A map of the world on the Equal Earth projection, with a dot for each variety at its place of origin.

Harvest

Russia grew 2,014,406 tonnes of apples in 2024, 2.1% of the world's harvest; it ranked eighth among the world's producers.1 FAOSTAT estimated this figure; it is not one Russia reported.

1992 2024
The figures
YearTonnes
2024 2,014,406
2023 2,086,219
2022 2,379,900
2021 2,215,300
2020 2,040,700
2019 1,950,800
2018 1,859,400
2017 1,493,600
2016 1,701,100
2015 1,612,700
2014 1,624,000
2013 1,573,000
2012 1,403,000
2011 1,198,000
2010 992,000
2009 1,441,200
2008 1,122,400
2007 2,342,000
2006 1,626,000
2005 1,786,000
2004 2,026,000
2003 1,700,000
2002 1,950,000
2001 1,640,000
2000 1,832,000
1999 1,060,000
1998 1,330,000
1997 1,500,000
1996 1,800,000
1995 1,200,000
1994 1,142,300
1993 1,623,400
1992 1,787,000

Estimated or imputed by FAOSTAT, not a figure the country reported.

Varieties from Russia, oldest first

  • Watercolour painting of Aport apples by Mary Daisy Arnold.

    Aport

    An old Russian apple, known in the West as Alexander, that became the celebrated Aport of Almaty after 1865

    Russia, late 18th century

  • Watercolour painting of Duchess of Oldenburg apples by James Marion Shull.

    Duchess of Oldenburg

    Borovinka at home; its hardiness in prairie test winters led Americans to import more Russian apples

    Russia, 1700s or earlier

  • Watercolour painting of Red Astrachan apples by Bertha Heiges.

    Red Astrachan

    A bloom-dusted summer apple, in England from Swedish stock by 1816; a 2025 DNA study names both its parents

    Russia, before 1816

  • Watercolour painting of Antonovka apples by Henry G. Van Deman.

    Antonovka

    Central Russia's old folk apple, prized for its scent and hardiness; DNA shows Schmidt's Antonovka is the same variety

    Russia, by 1826

  • Watercolour painting of White Transparent apples by Royal Charles Steadman.

    White Transparent

    A thin-skinned summer apple long common in Russia's Baltic provinces; SNP data name Aspa and Saint Germain as parents

    Russia, by 1852

  • Dolgo

    A Siberian crab brought from Russia to South Dakota in 1897 and introduced in 1917 for its ruby-red jelly

    Russia, 1897

  • Photograph of Pepin Shafranny apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Pepin Shafranny

    Michurin's winter apple of 1907–15; SNP data name Scarlet Pearmain and Glogerovka as its parents, not those recorded

    Russia, 1907

  • Coloured plate of Anis apples from A. Hrebnicki.

    Anis

    An old Volga folk apple whose clones bear small, bloom-dusted red fruit; Anis Polosaty has an anise-like scent

    Russia

And 16 more in the catalogue, A to Z

Sources

  1. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Updated 31 December 2025. Supports: each country's apple harvest by year (item 515, apples, in tonnes, 1961 to 2024), the shares of the world's harvest and the ranks worked out from them, and which figures FAOSTAT estimated or imputed.