OREANDA-NEWS. In accordance with Resolution of the Russian Government dated August 14, 2003 N 699 "On Making Payments and Transferring Funds in connection with Forming and Using Additional Oil and Gas Revenues of the Federal Budget, Financial Resources of the Reserve Fund and the National Wealth Fund as well as on Declaring Individual Acts of the Russian Government Null and Void", additional oil and gas revenues of the federal budget received in 2014 to be used for forming the Reserve Fund in 2015 in the amount 402.20 billion rubles were transferred in September of 2015 to the account to record funds of the Reserve Fund and then transferred from the said account to the unified account of the federal budget to cover deficit of the federal budget.

As of October 1, 2015, the aggregate amount of the Reserve Fund was 4 670.50 billion rubles which is equivalent to 70.51 billion US dollars. The amounts of balances in separate accounts to record funds of the Reserve Fund were:
* 31.50 billion US dollars;
* 28.27 billion euros;
* 4.73 billion pounds sterlings.

The aggregate calculated income from placing funds of the Reserve Fund in foreign currency accounts of the Bank of Russia recalculated in dollars for a period from January 15 to September 30, 2015 was 0.17 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to 11.35 billion rubles. The exchange rate difference from recalculating balances of funds in the said accounts for a period from January 1 to September 30, 2015 was 625.01 billion rubles.