Travel & technology
Electric power
- Plug shape
- Voltage
- 220V, 50Hz
Phone dialing
- Code to call Russia
- +7
Mobile phones
- GSM Band
- 900/1800
What every visitor should know about Russia:
- Money
- The currency is the Russian ruble (RUR).
- Crime
- CrimeSafe Travel Score™: 2.5 out of 5 (Use caution)
Areas of concern:
- Mugging
- Pick-pocketing / bag-snatching
- Armed robbery is rare but occurs
- Car theft
- Capital
- Moscow
- Tap water
- Safe in cities, but bottled water is advisable in rural areas.
Russia facts and figures:
People
- Population
- 140,041,247
- Language
- Russian, many minority languages
- Ethnicity
- Russian 79.8%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 2%, Bashkir 1.2%, Chuvash 1.1%, other or unspecified 12.1%
Economy
- GDP
- US$15,800 (per capita)
- Income equality
- Moderate