If you live in Moscow, St. Petersburg or in any other city of our country, but are going to relax in the Crimea, you do not need to ferry across the Kerch Strait. Another thing if you are a resident of the North Caucasus. Or here's a life situation: you came to Adler and found that you could not afford the local prices. Do you want to move to a cheaper Crimea. How? To date, five kilometers of water between Russia and Ukraine overcomes exclusively by ferry. In the 40s, however, there was a bridge built on a wave of enthusiasm in a record 150 days. But now he is gone. He also stood for a record short time, the result of his collapse was by no means a war, but a simple storm. So while there is no alternative to the ferry.
So, if you do not want to go round (burning at the same time more than a dozen liters of gasoline) the entire Sea of Azov, you will have to ferry across the Kerch Strait. Such a difficult matter has its own nuances. The first, and most important, perhaps the problem is the availability of queues. It doesn’t take half an hour to go by sea, but preparation for loading, as well as a variety of control procedures (including customs) at the two borders eat up the lion's share of the time and can prettyly tense your nerves.
And it’s not that it seldom ran a ferry across the
Kerch Strait. Its schedule is very humane: every hour and a half from the port of Crimea, and, of course, a ship departs from the port of Kavkaz. And in the high season, even extra flights are allowed. The movement of these giant shuttles is so busy that even before sailing you will meet a ship entering the harbor for new passengers. The cause of the lines is the extremely slow operation of the border and customs services. In fairness, I must say - both Russian and Ukrainian.
Moreover, if you buy a train or bus ticket Kerch-Novorossiysk, this will not free you from waiting in line. Unless you will pay for the crossing, because its cost is already included in the ticket price. But this is not such a lot of money: an adult passenger pays 37 hryvnias, a child - half as much. But for those traveling on their own vehicles, the ferry across the Kerch Strait will become more expensive. The price for transporting a car depends on its length. The lowest tariff is 176 hryvnias for passenger cars that do not exceed 4 meters 20 centimeters in length.
So, going to ferry across the Kerch Strait, you first need to buy a ticket. It is also your pass to the port. Before you get to its territory, stock up on water (and food), because there will be nowhere to buy them. Any photo and video shooting is also prohibited. It's funny, but boarding the ship, you can click on the camera from a convenient angle of the deck with all that was forbidden to remove from the pier with impunity. In addition, a webcam was recently installed in the port buildings, and now you can watch everything that is happening there in real time.
To ferry across the Kerch Strait, you must have with you a valid passport and the necessary documents for the car. Border guards take your papers to their booth, and customs officers begin to inspect the car. Carefully make sure that the passport is stamped with the date of entry into the territory of a foreign country - otherwise you will not end up in trouble upon departure. And the last: having arranged the car in the indicated place on the deck, do not forget to put it on the hand brake.