Actually, international visitors’ first question sounds in another ways. Like, ‘Do I need to get an entry permit for visiting Yakutia.‘ Answer, ‘No.‘ But an inviting organization or person needs to point in invitation applications which settlements within Russia including Yakutia international travellers intend to visit. That’s the ordinary procedure. So to visit Yakutia, foreign guests are required to have only valid Russian visas.
The next question I always hear is whether this or that region of Yakutia is open for foreigners. Usually, a requester lists all republic’s regions he or she wishes to visit. That’s right approach. However, it is enough to know as follows.
Entry permits within Yakutia are obligatory, when travellers are heading for the regions located in so-called frontier zone. Yakutia has five such areas. They are
- Allaikhovsky (with administrative centre Chokurdakh),
- Anabarsky (Saskylakh),
- Bulunsky (Tiksi),
- Oleneksky (Olenek), and
- Ust-Yansky (Deputatsky).
They are also known as Arctic regions. Check the map.
So, how to get an entry permit for the frontier zone?
The organization/person needs to apply visitors’ documents to the Federal Service of Security in Yakutsk. Below the list of required data:
- a fine scanned color copy of an international passport. All passport data must be seen and readable;
- information on the current place of residence: state, city, address, phone number.
- information on visitors’ work place: the full name of organization, position, contact info (i.e. work phone number, address);
- the list of settlements travellers wish to visit in the frontier zone.
A visitor must provide an inviting organization/person with the above-listed data in advance. Why? The answer is below.
Entry permit issue procedure takes 60 days (prior to the date of arrival). That’s the normal period. Unfortunately there is no more urgent entry permit issue procedure. Till recently it was possible to get the permit in 10 days. An entry permit is easy to get via a local travel agency.
One more thing. A travel agency’s support is not free, certainly. It costs some. The current rate is 1500 RUB/pers. for 60-day issue procedure.
What if travellers will go without entry permits?
They will be stopped by frontier guard (at the airport, river/sea port, in the sea, the delta of the Lena River, everywhere), then fined, deported and included in the black-list. Latter means they won’t be allowed to enter Russia anymore.
So, be prudent, clever, accurate and remember, an entry permit is a very important thing.
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