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I have not heard of anyone wanting a detailed itinerary for a tourist visa. Are you sure you are applying for a normal tourist visa?

Who is asking for the itinerary? If it's the inviting agency, try a different one.

If it's the embassy, I suspect you are not applying for a tourist visa.

RealRussia has a great website for visa information and they offer affordable visa support.

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I have not heard of anyone wanting a detailed itinerary for a tourist visa.
China asked me for a detailed itinerary for my tourist visa.

Note that in Russia, you are technically required to register yourself with the police when arriving in a new town. (Within 72 hours, and usually the hotel does this on your behalf.) As with many things in Russia, the strictness of the law is compensated by non-observance. But it's technically there.

What I suggest is that you put together a detailed itinerary using e.g. TripIt, with free-to-cancel bookings via booking.com, and submit that. Once you get the visa and get into Russia, you're certainly free to deviate from the original route.

That's what I did for mainland China, and the embassy was perfectly happy with it. What you need to understand is that you are dealing with bureaucrats, and if you give them something they don't know how to deal with, it is easier for them to just reject you. Help them cover their ass, and they will leave you alone.
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China asked me for a detailed itinerary for my tourist visa.

Note that in Russia, you are technically required to register yourself with the police when arriving in a new town. (Within 72 hours, and usually the hotel does this on your behalf.) As with many things in Russia, the strictness of the law is compensated by non-observance. But it's technically there.

Not true, you have to register when you stay at the same place for more than 6 days.
That means, if you save your bills from gas stations you can proof it is not necessary.
To avoid any discussions anyhow, I took sometimes a good hotel ( still cheap ) to get the registration.
In fact in all the years i tried to show the registration when exiting Russia and really never someone wanted to see the registration and always gave it back without even looking at it.

And I drove 9 times through Russia

What I suggest is that you put together a detailed itinerary using e.g. TripIt, with free-to-cancel bookings via booking.com, and submit that. Once you get the visa and get into Russia, you're certainly free to deviate from the original route.

As mentioned before, I never had to fill in a detailed itinerary.
All I had to do is to writ some of the cities I want to visit on the application, but also, once it is done, nobody cares.


That's what I did for mainland China, and the embassy was perfectly happy with it. What you need to understand is that you are dealing with bureaucrats, and if you give them something they don't know how to deal with, it is easier for them to just reject you. Help them cover their ass, and they will leave you alone.
And for Russia it matters which country co live in and what passport you have.

Kiwi sound like New Zealand

So this is important if you ask for information about Russian visa
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