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Plan to alive, work and travel in Russian federation? Here'southward everything you need to know about getting a Russian commuter's license!

Can you use your country'southward driver'southward license in Russian federation? Should you lot change information technology to a Russian one? How to laissez passer the commuter's exam? Permit's take a look!

1. Do yous need a Russian driver's license?

If you're a tourist and you're driving either your own or a rented automobile in Russia and so you can easily practice it with your national commuter'south license. According to Russian federation'south law on road prophylactic, a foreign national who temporarily visits or is resident in Russian federation qualifies for a local driver's license. But if the person doesn't have one and so it'due south possible to apply a national or an international driver's license. The latter is valid only with the national one. This rule has one important note: Russia is a signatory to the Vienna Convention on Route Traffic and recognizes the national licenses of other signatories (among these are the UK, Germany, Italia, France and other European countries; besides as the CIS and some Latin American states). However, the U.S. isn't a signatory to the Convention. Does this mean that yous can't bulldoze with your American driver's license? Co-ordinate to Russian law, you tin can use information technology if you have a notarized translation of the license into Russian. To be on the safe side, as well carry an international license.

ii. How to get a Russian driver's license if you already have a national one

If yous take a temporary residency permit or a Russian passport, then you need to get a Russian driver's license. Moreover, if you desire to work as a driver (fifty-fifty if you don't have a Russian passport), yous demand to get a local commuter'southward license. If you already have a national license, so y'all can change information technology to a Russian one, said Vladimir Starinsky, managing partner of Starinsky, Korchago and Partners.

"To do it, you lot need to apply with the following documents to the Route Traffic Police Office: an application, your passport (translated in Russian), medical certificate (you tin can pass the standard exam in about Russian clinics), a national driver's license and examination fee receipt. If yous have several driving categories, you lot need to laissez passer an exam of the highest level," Starinsky explains. The examination will be in Russian, and you tin yet concur on to your national license.

Moreover, if you accept a residency permit, you should drive only with a Russian license; the country gives you 60 days to exchange your national license for a Russian one.

David Manukyan changed his Armenian commuter's license to a Russian one in 2014. "Armenia is a signatory to the Vienna Convention, so I needed only to show a medical document, pass the test on driving theory, pay the country fee and get a Russian license on the same solar day," he said.

What to do if your land didn't sign the Convention? Pass the examination like you never have driven before!

three. What if you don't have a driver'due south license at all?

If your dream is to larn how to bulldoze and you accept a temporary residency allow, and then you accept the right to take driving lessons similar any Russian citizen. Start, you have to sign up for classes at a driving schoolhouse, which includes classroom lessons (130 hours) and lessons behind the bicycle (56 hours). For an additional fee, you can exercise with an teacher as often as you want. The course lasts for 3-4 months, and after getting a certificate y'all tin can laissez passer the examination at the traffic police's function.

Classroom lessons are necessary to take the detailed exam of the driving rules. Passing a written test is the first stage in the exam given by traffic police. The examination consists of 20 multiple-pick questions given on a reckoner. You take 20 minutes to laissez passer the test and should brand no more than i mistake. So you demand to pass two practical tests: on the driving grade and in the city. If you fail, you can pass the exam again (the number of attempts is not restricted). Simply if you were successful – congratulations! Let'southward go for a drive!

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