On August 1, 2023, at 10:00 am, Russia started issuing electronic visas (we explain how to get one here). However, while planning your trip to Russia, keep in mind that an electronic visa only allows travelers to cross the Russian border at particular checkpoints. At the moment of publication, this list includes:
Auto checkpoints
Bagrationovsk (Polish Border), Brusnichnoye (Finnish border), Burachki (Latvian border), Verkhnii Lars (Georgian border), Vyartsilya (Finnish border), Gusev (Polish border), Ivangorod (Estonian border), Kunichina Gora (Estonian border), Kyakhta (Mongolian border), Lyuttya (Finnish border), Mamonovo (Gzehotki, Polish border), Mamonovo (Gronovo, Polish border), Morskoye (Lithuanian border), Pogranichnoe (Polish border), Poltavka (Chinese border), Svetogorsk (Finnish border), Sovetsk (Lithuanian border), Solovyovsk (Mongolian border), Starotsurukhaitui (Chinese border), Torfyanovka (Finnish border), Turii Rog (Chinese border), Ubylinka (Latvian border), Chernyshevskoye (Lithuanian border), Shumilkino (Estonian border).
Air checkpoints
Abakan, Anadyr (Ugolny Airport), Arkhangelsk (Talagi Airport), Astrakhan (Narimanovo Airport), Barnaul, Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladivostok (Knevichi Airport), Vladikavkaz (Beslan Airport), Volgograd (Gumrak Airport), Grozny (Airport North), Yekaterinburg (Koltsovo Airport), Zhukovsky, Irkutsk, Kazan, Kaliningrad (Khrabrovo Airport), Kaluga (Grabtsevo Airport), Kemerovo, Krasnodar (Pashkovsky Airport), Krasnoyarsk (Yemelyanovo Airport), Lipetsk, Makhachkala (Uytash Airport), Mineralnye Vody, Moscow (Vnukovo airport, Domodedovo airport, Sheremetyevo Airport), Murmansk, Nalchik, Nizhny Novgorod (Strigino Airport), Novosibirsk (Tolmachevo Airport), Omsk (Tsentralny Airport), Orenburg (Tsentralny Airport), Perm (Bolshoe Savino Airport), Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Elizovo Airport), Rostov-on-Don (Platov Airport), Samara (Kurumoch Airport), St. Petersburg (Pulkovo Airport), Saratov (Gagarin Airport), Sochi, Syktyvkar, Tomsk (Bogashevo Airport), Tyumen (Roshchino Airport), Ulan-Ude (Baikal Airport), Ulyanovsk (Vostochny Airport), Ufa, Khabarovsk (Novy Airport), Cheboksary, Chelyabinsk (Balandino Airport), Chita (Kadala Airport), Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Khomutovo Airport), Yaroslavl (Tunoshna Airport).
Railway checkpoints
Zabaykalsk (Chinese border), Mamonovo (Polish border), Makhalino (Chinese border), Naushki (Mongolian border), Pogranichny (Chinese border), St. Petersburg (Finlyandsky railway station), Sovetsk (Lithuanian border), Khasan (Chinese border).
Maritime checkpoints
The Big Port of St. Petersburg (sections of the Marine Station, Fort Konstantin, Angliskaya Embankment and Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment), Vladivostok, Vysotsk, Zarubino, Kaliningrad (sections in Kaliningrad and Svetly), Korsakov, Magadan, Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, The Passenger Port of St. Petersburg, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Posyet, Sochi (section International Center for Maritime Passenger and Cruise Transportation).
Pedestrian checkpoints
Ivangorod (Estonian border)
Mixed checkpoints
Amurzet (Chinese border), Blagoveshchensk (Chinese border), Pokrovka (Chinese border).
River checkpoints
Khabarovsk
Maxim Bogodvid / Sputnik
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