Rules for obtaining a Russian visa for Chinese citizens

In order to improve the quality of service for applicants requesting a visa for entry into the Russian Federation, there is Russian visa application center operating in Beijing.

The address of the Visa Center is: Office A-10, Hanwei Plaza 3 floor, Xiao Guan No.56, Guanghualu No.7 Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing, (北京市朝阳区光华路7号汉威大厦三层A-10), website: www.russiavisa-china.cn, telephone number: 8-10-86-10-64669122, e-mail: info.pek@russiavisa-china.cn.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please note that if you intend to apply visa documents to the Consular office of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in China (Add: No. 4 Dongzhimen Beizhongjie, Dongcheng district Beijing, 100600), in the electronic application form in “Appointment details” graph as a “Destination name” you should choose “Embassy of the Russian Federation in China” but not “Beijing visa center”. In case, if you have selected wrong “Destination name”, the documents will not be accepted.

Complete visa application form

  • Multiple tourist/business visa holders are limited to overall or continual stay of 90 days during each period of 180 days starting with the day of first entry.
  • Consular Section of the Russian Embassy in Beijing is not authorized to prolong visas issued by other agencies.
  • In case the Consular Section does not issue visa, the submitted invitations will not be given back.
  • Incomplete Visa Application Form shall not be processed.
  • The Consular Division is authorized to request any supplementary documents and information in regard of the application.
  • For visitors traveling as a group the complete set of documents should be provided by each person.
  • The applicant directly appealing to the Consular office of the Russian Embassy should do it personally.
  • Citizens of all Schengen countries, Israel, Finland, Estonia and Lithuania are to provide medical insurance for the whole period of stay in Russia or written guarantee for all medical expenses by the receiving party.

Tourist visa – visa with the following purposes of travel: «tourism».

Required documents:

  1. Original passport and copy of the main page (passport should contain minimum 2 empty pages for visas, validity of the passport – 6 months from the end of the requested visa)
  2. One color photo (3.5 cm x 4.5cm)
  3. Visa application form (filled on the website https://visa.kdmid.ru)
  4. Foreign Tourist Tour Confirmation issued by inbound Russian travel agency whose information is contained in the unified federal register of tour operators, or confirmation of booking a place in a hotel or other accommodation facility*, information about which is contained in the unified list of qualified hotels, ski slopes, beaches (original)
  5. * A tourist visa issued upon confirmation of booking a place in a hotel can only be a single-entry visa, and its validity period is limited to the dates of booking. At the same time, the migration registration of a foreign citizen will be carried out by the hotel that issued the above-mentioned confirmation. If a foreign citizen cancels a reservation and, as a result, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia does not have information from the hotel about his migration registration, his tourist visa may be canceled, and a foreign tourist may be brought to administrative responsibility for violating the rules of stay of foreign citizens on the territory of the Russian Federation, This also does not exclude the adoption of a decision not to allow entry into the Russian Federation in accordance with article 27 of the Federal law-114 of 15.08.1996 “On the procedure for leaving the Russian Federation and entering the Russian Federation”.
  6. Travel insurance valid in Russia
  7. Copy of the passport page with a Chinese visa (only for third counties)

When boarding an aircraft performing international air transportation, proceeding to a destination in the territory of the Russian Federation, including for the purpose of transit through the territory of the Russian Federation, and when crossing the State Border of the Russian Federation, ensure that you have a medical document with you (in Russian or English), confirming the negative result of a laboratory study of material for COVID-19 by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method, selected no earlier than two calendar days before arrival in the territory of the Russian Federation.

  • PCR tests should be done in the institutions mentioned below:
  • 迪安医学检验 DIAN Diagnostics (www.dazd.cn);
  • 艾迪康医学检验实验室 ADICON Clinical Laboratories (www.adicon.com.cn);
  • 博奥检验 CapitalBio MedLab (www.biodx.com.cn);
  • 兰卫检验 Labway (www.labway.cn);
  • Hong Kong Sanatorium&Hospital.

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Info Source: RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN CHINA