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| Russian dog | 18 Sep 2006 |
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Does anyone remember the breed of dog that was huge almost like a giant husky, and was used for sheparding livestock in Siberia? Russians would tell me they were used to kill wolves and foxes that came into their flock. |
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| Brook L Harker | E-mail senden |
| Travel to Russia | 17 Sep 2006 |
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I'm almost a 100% sure that you don't need to register if you're staying less than 3 days. So don't even worry about it. One thing though: make sure you carry your passport and your ticket with you everywhere. If you get stopped by "milicioner" on the street, you can prove that you got there less than 3 days ago. Otherwise, there could be problems! Another thing is I'd recommend you go through a reliable agency to get your tourist visa. Home-stay invitations take a long time to make (about 1 month plus shipping) and are a hassle for a Russian citizen. Unless you have very close friends in Samara or Saratov, I'd say go through one of these websites that other people recommended to you. Your hotel in Samara or Saratov will help you register. You won't even have to go anywhere, they do it all for you! I could also recommend you a hotel in Samara. If I can be of further assistance don't hesitate to contact me at umnichka@yahoo.com or 801-897-0624 Paulina |
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| Paulina Konovalenko-Gudgell | E-mail senden |
| Thanks! | 14 Sep 2006 |
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Hey thanks everyone for the info, we are in the early planning stages now. Yes I believe we can get an invitation from a number of people there, so that sounds like the best way. Could we get an invite from a person there for a visa, but still stay in hotels? I also imagine a flight from Moscow to Saratov or Ufa is pretty pricey compared to the train. And I love Russian trains! |
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| Brook L Harker | E-mail senden |
| Thanks! | 14 Sep 2006 |
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Hey thanks everyone for the info, we are in the early planning stages now. Yes I believe we can get an invitation from a number of people there, so that sounds like the best way. Could we get an invite from a person there for a visa, but still stay in hotels? I also a flight from Moscow to Saratov or Ufa is pretty pricey compared to the train. And I love Russian trains! |
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| Brook L Harker | E-mail senden |
| Tourist Visa | 12 Sep 2006 |
| It IS a pain. I had one made this last summer and the geniuses at the travel agency put the wrong date on there. I had to drive up to the Consulate in San Fransisco and pay another $300 dollars for a one-day processing visa. You do need a travel agency if you don't have a personal invite. Major hotels have their own connections and will help you. For me registering was VERY easy. The first registration was done in the marriot during check in and the next registration (while we stayed at an apartment) was easy as well. We dropped it off in the morning and picked it up in the evening. The most important thing I can tell you is CHOOSE YOUR TRAVEL AGENCY CAREFULLY. Ours was through a church member in Utah. After all the bad service, delays, and costly mistakes we got no refunds and no help. I ended up talking to the consulate and taking two days to drive up there twice to fix things. Just make sure it's a reputable travel agency. | |
| Ethan Kirk | E-mail senden |
| Answer about travel | 12 Sep 2006 |
| You can go on a tourist visa or a homestay visa (a visa that you get from an invitation). I advise getting a homestay. Here's why. If you get a tourist visa, you have to have your hotel plans set and the hotels where you will stay have to send a visa support letter to the Russian embassy here. It's a hassle. Or, you can just pay like $20 and have a tourist agency create an invitation for you. Registration once you get to a city is not a hassle. The hotel does it for you. You only need to stand in the lines if you are staying at a friend's house. As far as accommodations go, I suggest staying in Hotel Rossiya in Moscow and Volga in Saratov. I always stay at the Rossiya. You can book both hotels online on www.tourintel.ru. I have used this agency twice and they are pretty reliable. | |
| Jeff Mark Bennion | E-mail senden |
| Travel to Russia | 12 Sep 2006 |
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This company in SLC can help with the Visa....its realllllllly easy. Takes a day or two and about $50. http://www.visa-bility.com/ |
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| Brent Simmons | E-mail senden |
| answer for question on travel | 12 Sep 2006 |
| Hi, Well, there are a few options which you can use to come. One of them - get invitation from somebody who is living there (better to get from somebody in Saratov or Samara where you are going to travel - because in these small cities they don't have to pay much money as it for example in S-Petersburt or even Moscow - here the prices are not really reasonable for that piece of paper named INVITATION). So when you get one you can get visa from US embassy easily. When you'll get here in Moscow and S-Petersburg you can find hotel here - it is not very hard. Prices will be from $80/per night and more (for Moscow I can help you to find one and for S-Petersburg I can ask my friends to help) but for Samara - Saratov I don't have much clue (never done it). The other option is to get tourist visa by one of the internet sites (which works too... for example http://www.visatorussiaonline.com/) and the rest will be the same - hotels, train tickets you can get here... all the best, Svetlana | |
| Svetlana A Shineleva | E-mail senden |
| Reply to Brook Harker | 11 Sep 2006 |
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I served in 98-2000 in Samara, and I worked at the US embassy in Moscow for a couple years after that. I've never travelled back to the motherland on a tourist visa (I had a diplomatic one, so it was much easier). It is my understanding, however, that ANYBODY wishing to travel to Russia must have an invitation from somebody there. The easiest way that most people do it is to just go through a tour agency. They take care of the invitation for you, and they usually help you get registered once you're there. This is what I would recommend. If you recall, every tourist MUST register in Russia once he/she arrives, and you would be no exception. I believe that you have to register within 3 days of arrival. I'm not sure how it would be for you, since you are only staying in moscow and petersburg for only 2 days each. The registration can be quite a pain. I have heard some reports of people standing in line for hours to get registered. Technically, you are supposed to get registered at each place you will stay, but I'm pretty sure that it only applies if you are there more than 3 days... What I'm saying is, you really need to find out before you go in order to save you a ton of hastle. You can just do a google search for a travel/tour agency that specializes in Russia. They should have an office in the US, and you can call and discuss it with them in english. I would call at least two of them and ask them the same questions, just to make sure that you're getting correct info. Sorry this wasn't too helpful. If you need anything else send me an email. Also, if you need to contact the US embassy once you get to Russia, the # is (095) 728-5000. Ask for American Citizen Services. Good Luck! Matt |
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| Matthew Spaulding | E-mail senden |
| Nelson Cookbook | 11 Sep 2006 |
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Hey Rachel, I was the artist on the Nelson cookbook (LOL) and I am certain I have an unscathed copy somewhere. I'll take a looksy ok? I'll scan what we're missing still if I can find it. Brook |
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| Brook L Harker | E-mail senden |
| Questions on travel | 11 Sep 2006 |
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Hi, it's been 10 years since I was in Russia. My mother and I would like to go visit Saratov next summer. Does anyone who has done this as a civilian have suggestions on how to book travel, where to stay etc. etc.? Are they allowing plain tourist visa's or do you have to get an invite from someone living there? We want to go to Moscow for 2 days, Petersburg for 2 and Saratov for 3-4. Any tips are appreciated! Otherwise I will figure it out in my broken Russian over the phone. Thanks! |
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| Brook L Harker | E-mail senden |
| I second that reunion motion | 06 Sep 2006 |
| Finally back in the semi-area (ok I live out in the middle of the desert in Western Utah), but still, I'd like to see some folks that are around from the Gashler days. Any talk of some kind of get-together/reunion? Seems like there are a few of us kicking around here for a little while at least. Would be nice to see everyone. | |
| Rachel Land | E-mail senden |
| COOKBOOKS! | 06 Sep 2006 |
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At long last! The cookbooks have been scanned and are ready for your downloading and printing pleasure! Brent Simmons has graciously hosted them, and they can be found at http://www.simmnet.com/mission Brent says the page isn't pretty yet, but he'll be sprucing it up later this week. Those filenames ending in "bklt" are set up for double-sided printing (I hope) so you can print out and fold up your own little booklet (numbering is out of order). The other files are straight scans (just opened it up and scanned page by page - numbering goes in order) The Nelson cookbook is only a partial one. I scanned all of it that I had. If anyone out there has a complete one that they'd like to let me borrow and scan for archival's sake please let me know. :) SO... a big thanks to all you patient folks who have been waiting for these. |
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| Rachel Land | E-mail senden |
| Izhevsk | 29 Aug 2006 |
| Izhevsk has a long (and amazing) history to it. Before it was opened About 50 people had already recieved Books of Mormon from high school students on an exchange program from Logan Utah. Others had attended church in utah and so on and so forth. The foundation had been laid and missionaries arrived in the fall of '03. I remember my MTC branch president showing it to me on a map in the hallway of the mtc and informing us that it had just been opened and that he was going to lecture at a university there a few months later. This happened in Nov and on sept 23 '04 i arrived in Izhevsk. From sept to march I served there. We did not yet have a branch, just two groups. One was in town and met at the library (from which we were evicted which began many months of searching for a permanent home) and held sacrament meeting for the other group in the village Norya outside of town. As of march '04 45 people were the most ever at sacrament meeting in Izhevsk with only 26 of them being members. However, I can't give you much more current information than that. Izhevsk was, and I'm sure still is, THE best place to serve in the mission and the world. When the church is that small and you've known every person that has ever had a discussion and met every member and know everyone's converstion story there is just a special feeling of closeness that is never duplicated anywhere else. My five months there were my most spiritually challenging and rewarding of my whole life. Now I think John Gallup should write post a story about opening up Izhevsk and working in the village Norya with Oleg and Marina. | |
| Ethan Kirk | E-mail senden |
| Reunion or Banya anyone? | 28 Aug 2006 |
| I caught a fantastic play in SLC last weekend and much to my suprise (and very great amusement) I found that Russia Samara's own Kelly Griffiths was the star (and yes, he was fabulous). I caught up with him at half-time (or intermission - whatever) and began thinking that it has been too long since I had a chance to get together with the Russia Samara kids. Does anyone know if there is a reunion planned for this fall? In addition - is there any interest among the former ELDERS (sorry no sisters allowed) for a little Banya reunion in the upcoming months? | |
| Matthew N. Bradley | E-mail senden |
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