The data from the Russian Central Bank showed that the positive trade balance of Russia grew by 10.4% in September 2015 and came in at $9.61 billion compared with $8.705 in August.
The surplus of foreign trade in August was the lowest since the same month of 2010 at $7.655 billion.
Exports grew by 4.2% on month to $26.368 billion in September, while imports rose by 0.9% to $16.758 billion.
In the first nine months of this year, exports declined to $259.984 billion, a decrease of 31.8% from 2014 figures.
Imports from January to September rose by 38.5% to $143.739 billion compared with the same period of the last year.
In the first nine months of 2015, the foreign trade surplus in Russia decreased by 21.2% to $116.246 billion against $147.468 billion in the same period of the last year.
This way, the central bank upwardly revised the estimate of the trade balance in the first nine months. Early October, the regulator expected the surplus at $115.5 billion.
