Kyiv pastries have risen in price again: the history of prices for iconic fast food
The capital’s main culinary icon—the “Kyivskaya Perepichka”—has raised its price. Last week, the price of the legendary sausage roll rose by 5 UAH and now stands at 60 UAH. Since the start of the full-scale invasion, the price of this popular Kyiv fast food has doubled.
Since the start of the full-scale invasion, the price of the "Kyivska Perepichka" has doubled, and its price tag has served as an unofficial inflation index for forty-five years.
The history of this iconic establishment on Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street dates back to February 1981. During the Soviet era, a hot sausage cost 22 kopecks. In the 2010s, the price remained steady at 4.5 hryvnias for a long time, after which it began to rise gradually.
In 2015, a hot dog cost 8 UAH; by spring 2016, the price had rounded up to 10 UAH, and by December of that same year, it had risen to 12 UAH. By the end of 2017, the iconic fast-food item cost 15 UAH; a year later, 17 UAH; and in September 2019, it crossed the 18 UAH mark. September 2020 raised the bar to 20 UAH; in the spring of 2021, the price jumped to 25 UAH, and a month before the start of the full-scale war, in January 2022, it settled at 30 UAH.
The full-scale invasion and economic challenges only accelerated the price surge: in September 2022, the price of a loaf of bread rose to 35 UAH, in May 2023 to 40 UAH, and in May 2024 it reached 45 UAH.
The next jump to 50 UAH occurred in December 2024, and by the end of last year, 2025, Kyiv’s culinary signature dish was already costing 55 UAH, and now, at the start of this summer, the perichka has set a new all-time high.
Journalist Yegor Shumikhin drew attention to this rapid change in the price of the iconic delicacy and its mismatch with the growth rate of average wages.
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