Russian Visas

Visitors to St. Petersburg who are cruise ship passengers who tour with www.RussiantourGuide.com do not need a Russian tourist visa ! All other visitors to the Russian Federation must have a tourist visa. Getting a Russian Federation tourist visa is easy. You must:

• Have a document called an “invitation“.  www.RussiantourGuide.com  obtains the “invitation” for most of our clients*
• Have a letter from us stating that we are responsible for your tours during your visit to St. Petersburg, Moscow or other Russian city. www.RussiantourGuide.com provides this.
• Complete the application procedure for the Russian consulate in your country along with the appropriate fee to that Russian consualte.

You send your passport, invitation and letter, along with the fee, and the Russian consulate returns your passport to you with the visa for the Russian Federation posted inside your passport. www.RussiantourGuide.com will assist you with each step. We have NEVER had a client rejected for a Russian visa.

Submit Passport Details

This form allow you to easily submit the passport details for yourself or those in your party. We use the passport details to obtain “visa Free documents” for our cruise ship clients. We use the passport details to obtain the tourist visa enabling documents (invitation and voucher) for clients who are not visiting via cruise ships. Whether you are a cuise ship passenger to St. Petersburg or a land tour client visiting Russia and using RussiantourGuide.com as your tour provider, you will be receiving your documents from us a few days after submitting these details. As a back up to the accuracy of this data, we encourage you to scan the picture pages of your passport(s) and email them to us so we can double check the accuracy of the details on the form. Accuracy with travel documents to Russia is essential and www.RussiantourGuide.com cannot be responsible for complications arising from miscommunicated passport details.