Who can apply

An electronic visa can only be obtained by citizens of the following countries, the list of which is established by the Government of the Russian Federation:

• Austria
• Andorra
• Bahrain
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Vatican
• Hungary
• Vietnam
• Germany
• Greece
• Denmark
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Ireland
• Iceland
• Spain
• Italy
• Cambodia
• Cyprus
• China
• Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
• Kuwait
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Liechtenstein
• Luxembourg
• Malaysia
• Malta
• Mexico
• Monaco
• Myanmar
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Oman
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• San Marino
• Saudi Arabia
• North Macedonia
• Serbia
• Singapore
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Taiwan, China
• Türkiye
• Philippines
• Finland
• France
• Croatia
• Czech Republic
• Switzerland
• Sweden
• Estonia
• Japan

Documents & Process

What documents you will need and how much time it will take

Documents

1. A digital photograph of the face
2. A scan of the page with the data of the foreign citizen’s machine-readable passport 
3. Information about cities you will visit
4. Dates of your trip

Process & Time

You will send all documents to us and get your visa within 4 calendar days, including week-ends and bank holidays

How you can use it

A single electronic visa gives the right to a single entry into the Russian Federation and stay in the Russian Federation on a guest or business visit, as a tourist, as well as to participate in scientific, cultural, socio-political, economic, sports events and to implement relevant connections and contacts.

The validity period of a single electronic visa is 60 days from the date of its issuance with the permitted period of stay of a foreign citizen in the Russian Federation no more than 16 days from the date of entry into the territory of the Russian Federation.

Border crossing points

An e-visa is valid for entry into and exit from the Russian Federation only through the following State border crossing points of the Russian Federation:

By plane

• Altai Territory: Barnaul
• Arkhangelsk Region: Arkhangelsk (Talagi)
• Astrakhan Region: Astrakhan (Narimanovo)
• Belgorod Region: Belgorod
• Bryansk Region: Bryansk

• Republic of Bashkortostan: Ufa
• Republic of Buryatia: Ulan-Ude (Mukhino)
• Volgograd Region: Volgograd (Gumrak)
• Republic of Dagestan: Makhachkala (Uytash)
• Sverdlovsk Region: Yekaterinburg (Koltsovo)
• Stavropol Territory: Mineralnye Vody
• Trans-Baikal Territory: Chita (Kadala)
• Irkutsk Region: Irkutsk
• Kabardino-Balkarian Republic: Nalchik
• Kaliningrad Region: Kaliningrad (Khrabrovo)
• Kaluga Region: Kaluga (Grabtsevo)
• Kamchatka Territory: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Elizovo)

• Kemerovo Region: Kemerovo
• Krasnodar Territory: Krasnodar (Pashkovsky), Sochi
• Krasnoyarsk Territory: Krasnoyarsk (Emelyanovo)
• Moscow and Moscow Region: Moscow (Vnukovo), Moscow (Domodedovo), Moscow (Sheremetyevo), Moscow (Zhukovsky)
• Omsk Region: Omsk (Central)
• Orenburg Region: Orenburg (Central)
• Komi Republic: Syktyvkar
• Lipetsk Region: Lipetsk
• Murmansk Region: Murmansk
• Nizhny Novgorod Region: Nizhny Novgorod (Strigino)
• Novosibirsk Region: Novosibirsk (Tolmachevo)
• Primorsky Krai: Vladivostok (Knevichi)
• Perm Region: Perm (Bolshoe Savino)
• Rostov Region: Rostov-on-Don (Platov)
• Samara Region: Samara (Kurumoch)
• Saratov Region: Saratov (Gagarin)
• St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region: Saint Petersburg (Pulkovo)
• Sakhalin Region: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Khomutovo)
• Republic of North Ossetia – Alania: Vladikavkaz (Beslan)
• Republic of Tatarstan: Kazan
• Tomsk Region: Tomsk (Bogashevo)
• Tyumen Region: Tyumen (Roshchino)
• Ulyanovsk Region: Ulyanovsk (Vostochny)
• Chelyabinsk Region: Chelyabinsk (Balandino)
• Chuvash Republic: Cheboksary
• Khabarovsk Territory: Khabarovsk (New)
• Republic of Khakassia: Abakan
• Chechen Republic: Grozny (North)
• Chukotka Autonomous Area: Anadyr (Ugolnyy)
• Yaroslavskaya oblast: Yaroslavl (Tunoshna)

By car

• Republic of Buryatia: Kyakhta
• Kaliningrad Region: Bagrationovsk, Gusev, Mamonovo (Grzechotki), Mamonovo (Gronovo), Morskoje, Pogranichny, Sovetsk, Chernyshevskoe
• Republic of Karelia: Vyartsilya, Lyuttya, Suoperya
• Murmansk Region: Salla
• Primorye Territory: Poltavka, Turiy Rog
• Pskov Region: Burachki, Kunichina Gora, Shumilkino, Ubylinka
• St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region: Brusnichnoe, Ivangorod (from February 1, 2024 it will be temporarily closed for reconstruction), Svetogorsk, Torfjanovka
• Republic of North Ossetia-Alania: Verkhny Lars
• Trans-Baikal Territory: Solovyovsk, Starotsurukhaitui

By train

• Republic of Buryatia: Naushki
• Kaliningrad Region: Mamonovo, Sovetsk
• Primorye Territory: Makhalino, Pogranichnyy, Khasan
• St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region: St. Petersburg-Finlyandskiy
• Trans-Baikal Territory: Zabaykalsk

By ship

• Kamchatka Territory: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
• Kaliningrad Region: Kaliningrad (checkpoints in the cities of Kaliningrad and Svetly)
• Krasnodar Territory: Sochi (International Center for Sea Passenger and Cruise Transportation)
• Magadan Region: Magadan
• Murmansk Region: Kandalaksha, Murmansk
• Primorye Territory: Vladivostok, Zarubino, Posiet
• St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region: Big port Saint Petersburg (Marine Station, Fort Constantin, English Embankment and Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment), Vysotsk, Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg
• Sakhalin Region: Korsakov
• Khabarovsk Region: Nikolayevsk-on-Amur

On foot

• St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region: Ivangorod