Last year, the residents of regions of the North Caucasian Federal District paid for purchases using QR codes more than 10 million times. According to Sberbank, this is 5 times more than in 2022. Dagestan was the most frequent destination for QR code payments - more than 5 million times. Kabardino-Balkaria takes the second place, with 1.3 million purchases made using a QR code in 2023. Chechnya is in third place with 1.2 million transactions.