To come to Russia you will need to receive an entering visa. St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) as a hosting institution will provide for an official invitation to be used by you in the visa application procedure in your home country.

Will you please send us and the sooner the better, since invitation processing formalities may take up to four weeks, some data and copies of the documents officially required for the above invitation issuance in St. Petersburg:

Please fax to +7(812)328-0685 or +7(812)328-4450 or e-mail at: ipp@iias.spb.su a copy of your passport valid at least for six months after the end of your planned visit to Russia. Please also check that you send to us copies of one or several passport pages where the following data are clearly read: country of your passport origin, citizenship, surname, given names, date of birth, passport number, passport issuance and expiration dates, issuing authority

Additionally to the passport image we need:

1. full name of your employing company/university/etc
2. full business address of your employing company
3. your official position in the company
4. place of your birth (country, city, region, etc)
5. place of your permanent residency in your home country (country, state/region, city)
6. location of the Russian Consulate General where you plan to apply for the Russian visa
7. desirable date of you entry to Russia
8. name of the hotel, reserved in St. Petersburg for the duration of your visit
9. cities in Russia (3 cities additionally to St. Petersburg and Moscow) you may plan to visit