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The authors of the article are analyzing the structure and some of the figures of the financial market in Russia. The choice is dictated by the proximity of Russia, and relatively little knowledge of the financial market of this country, as well as by great potential which lies dormant in this sphere of Russian Federation economic life. The study attempts to characterize this market and to define its segmentation. The paper also describes the genesis of this market and the main stages of its development. At the end some figures, which characterize this market, were presented. The authors relied on the two segments: capital market and foreign exchange. These figures, beyond the role of information, allow comparison of trends in the Russian market with those that accompany market in Poland.