Permits and restricted zones — Russia
104 zones with special entry rules. “What you need” is for visitors, not counting specific nationalities; the rules for every group, exceptions and the application link are on the zone page.
Zones
Updated 21 October 2026
- Border zone: Altai Krai
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
16,647 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Altai Republic
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
26,513 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Amur Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
44,580 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Arkhangelsk Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
158,631 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Astrakhan Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
16,701 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Belgorod Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
4,078 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Bryansk Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
5,502 km² · approximate boundary · 5 rules
- Border zone: Buryatia
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
18,672 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Chechnya
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
1,135 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Chelyabinsk Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
9,530 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Chukotka
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
7,750 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Crimea
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
1,761 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Dagestan
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
3,991 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Ingushetia
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
631 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
7,566 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Kabardino-Balkaria
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
389 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Kaliningrad Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
2,459 km² · 5 rules
- Border zone: Kalmykia
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
2,944 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Kamchatka Krai
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
2,207 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Karachay-Cherkessia
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
1,663 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Karelia
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
15,738 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Khabarovsk Krai
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
2,373 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Krasnodar Krai
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
850 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Krasnoyarsk Krai
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
104,945 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Kurgan Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
4,487 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Kursk Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
2,176 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Leningrad Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
12,738 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Murmansk Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
6,797 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Nenets AO
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
104,639 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: North Ossetia
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
1,377 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Novosibirsk Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
4,369 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Omsk Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
8,303 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Orenburg Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
9,247 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Primorsky Krai
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
5,225 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Pskov Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
3,889 km² · 5 rules
- Border zone: Rostov Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
6,309 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Sakhalin Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
80,752 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Samara Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
213 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Saratov Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
3,060 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Smolensk Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
3,819 km² · approximate boundary · 5 rules
- Border zone: Tuva
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
35,060 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Tyumen Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
1,203 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Volgograd Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
2,869 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Voronezh Oblast
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
1,193 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Yakutia
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
37,032 km² · 4 rules
- Border zone: Yamalo-Nenets AO
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
100,486 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Border zone: Zabaykalsky Krai
Border zone
with an ID document — or permit required: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
28,191 km² · approximate boundary · 4 rules
- Alexandrovsk
Closed city
permit required
491 km² · 2 rules
- Fokino
Closed city
permit required
296 km² · 2 rules
- Gorny
Closed city
permit required
5 km² · 2 rules
- Komarovsky
Closed city
permit required
1 km² · 2 rules
- Krasnoznamensk
Closed city
permit required
13 km² · 2 rules
- Lesnoy
Closed city
permit required
350 km² · 2 rules
- Mezhgorye
Closed city
permit required
222 km² · 2 rules
- Mirny
Closed city
permit required
1,520 km² · 2 rules
- Molodyozhny
Closed city
permit required
6 km² · 2 rules
- Novouralsk
Closed city
permit required
427 km² · 2 rules
- Ostrovnoy
Closed city
permit required
769 km² · 2 rules
- Ozyorny
Closed city
permit required
210 km² · 2 rules
- Ozyorsk
Closed city
permit required
595 km² · 2 rules
- Pervomaysky
Closed city
permit required
5 km² · 2 rules
- Raduzhny
Closed city
permit required
113 km² · 2 rules
- Sarov
Closed city
permit required
246 km² · 2 rules
- Severomorsk
Closed city
permit required
503 km² · 2 rules
- Seversk
Closed city
permit required
477 km² · 2 rules
- Sibirsky
Closed city
permit required
5 km² · 2 rules
- Snezhinsk
Closed city
permit required
375 km² · 2 rules
- Solnechny (Krasnoyarsk Krai)
Closed city
permit required
4 km² · 2 rules
- Solnechny (Tver Oblast)
Closed city
permit required
5 km² · 2 rules
- Svetly
Closed city
permit required
4 km² · 2 rules
- Svobodny
Closed city
permit required
280 km² · 2 rules
- Tryokhgorny
Closed city
permit required
163 km² · 2 rules
- Tsiolkovsky
Closed city
permit required
1,180 km² · 2 rules
- Uralsky
Closed city
permit required
9 km² · 2 rules
- Vidyayevo
Closed city
permit required
79 km² · 2 rules
- Vilyuchinsk
Closed city
permit required
341 km² · 2 rules
- Vlasikha
Closed city
permit required
4 km² · 2 rules
- Voskhod
Closed city
permit required
16 km² · 2 rules
- Zaozyorsk
Closed city
permit required
623 km² · 2 rules
- Zarechny
Closed city
permit required
28 km² · 2 rules
- Zelenogorsk
Closed city
permit required
162 km² · 2 rules
- Zheleznogorsk
Closed city
permit required
454 km² · 2 rules
- Znamensk
Closed city
permit required
2,120 km² · 2 rules
- Zvyozdny
Closed city
permit required
91 km² · 2 rules
- Zvyozdny Gorodok
Closed city
permit required
3 km² · 2 rules
- Areas of Chelyabinsk Oblast — restricted for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
2,551 km² · approximate boundary · 2 rules
- Areas of Kaliningrad Oblast — restricted for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
176 km² · approximate boundary · 2 rules
- Areas of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast — restricted for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
1,248 km² · approximate boundary · 2 rules
- Areas of Sverdlovsk Oblast — restricted for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
270 km² · approximate boundary · 2 rules
- Arkhangelsk/Komi areas and southern Novaya Zemlya — restricted for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
55,916 km² · approximate boundary · 2 rules
- Chukotka Autonomous Okrug — restricted for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
820,256 km² · 3 rules
- Eastern Astrakhan Oblast — restricted for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
15,199 km² · approximate boundary · 2 rules
- Gulf of Finland islands and coast — restricted for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
4,757 km² · approximate boundary · 2 rules
- Kola coast and Kandalaksha Bay — restricted for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
8,625 km² · approximate boundary · 2 rules
- Komsomolsk-on-Amur — restricted for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
327 km² · 2 rules
- Northern and eastern North Ossetia — restricted area for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
2,842 km² · approximate boundary · 2 rules
- Northern Krasnoyarsk Krai area — restricted for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
no boundary · 2 rules
- Northern Mordovia (Moksha river) — restricted for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
676 km² · approximate boundary · 2 rules
- Northern Yamalo-Nenets AO — restricted for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
no boundary · 2 rules
- Orenburg–Ilek–Sol-Iletsk area — restricted for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
5,184 km² · approximate boundary · 2 rules
- Part of Pallasovsky District — restricted for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
6,045 km² · approximate boundary · 2 rules
- Parts of Odintsovsky and Balashikha urban okrugs — restricted for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
237 km² · 2 rules
- Parts of the Kamchatka Peninsula — restricted for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
41,432 km² · approximate boundary · 2 rules
- Primorye coastal strip — restricted for foreigners
Permit for foreign nationals
no permit — or permit in advance, via an agency: depends on the area, purpose or group; see the rule
2,386 km² · approximate boundary · 2 rules
Other countries
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