The peninsula of Crimea is still not associated with us abroad. However, it should be recognized: it is part of a foreign power. Therefore, crossing the Mikhailovsky farmstead by train or the Kerch Strait by ferry, as well as another checkpoint on the borders of Ukraine with the Russian Federation or the Republic of Belarus, you should remember: you leave your country of citizenship and enter another sovereign state. Consequently, border guards will inevitably meet on your way. In this case , is a passport needed in the Crimea?
Back in 1992, Ukraine signed bilateral agreements with Belarus, and in 1997 with the Russian Federation, according to which citizens of these three states can visit these countries without any visa or even a foreign passport and live there for 90 days. Therefore, do not believe the idle conjectures of well-wishers that supposedly you need a passport to Crimea. If you do not have it, then you can safely go to the sunny peninsula with the usual internal document.
However, this is still a different country, and border guards (both Russian and Ukrainian) are very picky people. It is at home that you can live with an expired passport. Read carefully the last page of your “citizenship internal document”. It says that in Russia a passport is changed when its holder is 20 and 45 years old. If you are not concerned about the timely replacement of the purple book cover, you will face at least a fine, and as a maximum, removal from the train. Therefore, if your internal document is overdue, but there is an external one, to the question “Do I need a passport in Crimea?” We answer: “Yes!”. So options are possible.
Where will the border guards put their stamps on? Well, Russian cordon guards will not punch you. But at the entrance to Ukraine, the train conductor, the flight attendant of the plane or at the checkpoint, the junior rank of the border service will give you a migration card form. It consists of two identical halves. They must be carefully filled. There will not be any questions with a quotation mark, everything is very standard: last name, place and date of birth, etc. The border guard tears off one half of the form and leaves it at home, and gives the second to you. This unpresentable piece of paper should be stored like the apple of an eye. For his loss, you face a rather big fine. One can already answer the question of whether a passport is needed in Crimea: no, because it is replaced (for the period of stay in the country) by a
migration card.Now consider the problem of transportation of minor citizens of the Russian Federation. There are some difficulties here. A baby who has not reached two years of age can leave only accompanied by her parents (if one of them, then the consent of the other, certified by a notary, is necessary). From 3 to 14, the child can travel with third parties (grandparents, a child group leader). When leaving the Russian Federation, as well as when entering Ukraine, you must present the original birth certificate with an insert confirming
Russian citizenship. From the age of 14, the child receives the right to travel independently (with the consent of the parents). Does such a young tourist need a passport to Crimea? Not. Only all the same birth certificate with an insert.
This year, it seems that a black cat ran between the Kremlin and the Ukrainian government. Either Evening Kiev sweets turned out to be harmful, then eggs, then fat ... Did Ukraine not respond to these attacks of the chief physician of Russia with her sanctions? Maybe happy times have already passed, and a passport is needed in Crimea? 2013, however, did not amend the existing visa-free visit agreements.