Visa-Free Countries for Russian citizens (2026)
A Russian passport enters 84 countries visa-free, gets a visa on arrival in 23 more, and an eTA in 7 — 114 of 198 destinations you can reach without arranging a visa before you go. 28 need an e-visa applied for online, and 56 need a consular visa. As of 20 July 2026.
- 84
- VISA-FREE
- 7
- ETA
- 23
- VISA ON ARRIVAL
- 28
- E-VISA
- 56
- VISA REQUIRED
Counts are for a standard tourist passport, from our open visa-matrix dataset, which cross-checks Wikipedia against a second source and records every disagreement rather than picking one silently. This is a starting point, not legal advice — a rule can change between snapshots, so confirm the current requirement with the destination's official source before you book. Rows marked ⚑ disputed are corridors where our two sources disagree; treat those as "verify first".
Visa-free 84
Walk up to the border with just your passport. No form, no fee, no advance step.
- Andorra90d⚑
- Angola30d
- Antigua and Barbuda180d
- Argentina90d
- Armenia180d
- Australia30d⚑
- Azerbaijan90d
- Bahamas90d
- Barbados28d
- Belarus
- Belize90d
- Bolivia90d
- Bosnia and Herzegovina30d
- Botswana90d
- Brazil90d
- Brunei14d
- Burma30d
- Cabo Verde60d
- Chile90d
- China30d
- Colombia90d
- Costa Rica30d
- Cuba90d
- Dominica90d
- Dominican Republic60d
- Ecuador90d
- El Salvador180d
- Eswatini30d
- Fiji120d
- Georgia365d
- Grenada90d
- Guatemala90d
- Guyana90d
- Haiti90d
- Honduras90d
- Hong Kong14d
- Iran30d⚑
- Jamaica90d
- Jordan90d
- Kazakhstan90d
- Kiribati90d
- Kyrgyzstan90d
- Laos30d
- Macao30d
- Malaysia30d
- Maldives90d
- Mauritius90d
- Micronesia30d
- Moldova90d
- Mongolia30d
- Montenegro30d
- Morocco90d
- Namibia90d
- Nauru14d
- Nicaragua90d
- Oman30d
- Palau30d
- Palestine
- Panama90d
- Paraguay90d
- Peru90d
- Philippines30d
- Qatar90d⚑
- Saint Lucia42d
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines90d
- Samoa60d
- San Marino90d⚑
- Sao Tome and Principe15d
- Saudi Arabia90d⚑
- Serbia30d
- Seychelles90d
- South Africa90d
- Suriname90d
- Tajikistan
- Thailand30d
- Trinidad and Tobago90d
- Tunisia90d
- Turkey60d
- United Arab Emirates90d
- Uruguay90d
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu120d
- Venezuela90d
- Vietnam45d
Electronic authorisation (eTA) 7
Visa-free in practice, but you must register an eTA online before you fly. Minutes, not weeks.
- Israel90d
- Kenya90d
- Mexico
- Mozambique30d
- Saint Kitts and Nevis90d
- South Korea60d
- Sri Lanka30d⚑
Visa on arrival 23
Nothing to arrange in advance — the visa is issued at the border, usually for a fee.
- Bahrain14d
- Bangladesh30d
- Burundi30d
- Cambodia30d
- Comoros45d
- East Timor30d
- Egypt30d
- Ethiopia90d
- Guinea-Bissau90d
- Indonesia30d
- Lebanon28d
- Madagascar90d
- Marshall Islands90d
- Nepal90d
- Rwanda30d
- Senegal30d
- Sierra Leone30d
- Syria15d⚑
- Tanzania90d
- Tonga31d
- Tuvalu30d
- Zambia90d
- Zimbabwe30d
E-visa (apply online first) 28
You must apply and be approved online before departure. Not a border formality.
- Afghanistan30d⚑
- Albania90d
- Benin30d
- Bhutan90d
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Djibouti90d⚑
- DR Congo7d
- Equatorial Guinea
- Gabon90d
- Ghana⚑
- Guinea90d
- India30d
- Iraq30d
- Ivory Coast90d⚑
- Liberia
- Libya
- Malawi90d⚑
- Mauritania30d
- Nigeria30d
- Pakistan90d
- Papua New Guinea30d⚑
- Somalia30d
- South Sudan30d
- Taiwan⚑
- Togo15d
- Uganda90d
Visa required 56
A consular visa is needed before travel — start early.
- Algeria
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- Congo
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia⚑
- Denmark
- Eritrea
- Estonia⚑
- Finland⚑
- France
- Gambia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Latvia⚑
- Lesotho
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania⚑
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia
- Mali
- Malta
- Monaco
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Niger
- North Korea
- Norway⚑
- Poland⚑
- Portugal
- Romania
- Singapore⚑
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Spain
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vatican
- Yemen