Visa
All foreigners that arrive at the Khabarovsk krai for a restricted time period are obliged besides the valid documentation on crossing the state border to also present entrance and exit visas  or invitations of the receiving party if the entry is visa-free.
When entering the region or leaving its territory, you need to present all the required documents and the baggage declaration. In case you are importing some items into the region territory on a temporary basis you need to keep the declaration or its copy with you as a document authorizing your export of these items.
You can bring in the training and hunting firearms upon presenting the invitation from the legal entity that keeps a license for hunting, a contract for hunting with the above entity, or the invitation to participate in sports events and the corresponding permit of the ministry for internal affairs of the Russian Federation. One has to keep it in mind that the above weapons nååd to be taken out of the country in the time terms specified by the contract or the invitation. Otherwise the import of weapons is prohibited.
There are restrictions for import of cigarettes, alcohol, medicines, national Russian currency, securities, precious metals and stones, mobile phones and some other items. Mind that please.
Customs regulations concerning items of cultural value
For items of cultural value that you have acquired during your stay on the Khabarovsk region territory a customs certificate for taking them out of the Russian Federation is required. Such certificates are issued by the territorial administration for preserving cultural values (#34, Muravyov-Amursky st., Khabarovsk, tel. /fax (4212) 326 537).
The list of cultural values that fall under customs certification for taking them out of Russia includes the following:
1. Separate items and collections of historic, research, artistic or any other cultural value connected with the memorable events in the life of peoples, in history of science, technology, culture and everyday life:
memorial items;
separate items and collections of industrial, military and other type gear;
equipment items, precise tools instruments and hardware of the research, industrial, consumer or military character;
ethnographic items (labor tools. clothing and household items);
items and their fragments obtained through archeological excavations.
2. Non-serial production art items (including their copies):
painting, graphical art, sculpture, scenography, authentic designer projects, installations, art compositions and arrangement or editing versions;
icons and artistically decorated items of religious character;
authentic decorative applied art items made from ceramics, glass, crystal, bronze. copper, silver alloys, precious metals and their alloys, pearls, precious and semiprecious stones, wood, leather, bone, horn, coral, amber and other materials of animal, plant or mineral origin, tapestry, carpets, items made of beads;
cold weapons and firearms;
traditional folk art craft items.
3. Parts and fragments of architecture, history and art monuments.
4. Printed matter:
of historical, research, literature or artistic value;
old books (older than 50 years), manuscripts;
publications with autographs, notes and exlibris of outstanding artists;
printed matter bearing the signs of being classified;
5. Authentic documents originating from before 1991 in any kind of form:
handwritten, typewritten, taken separate or in collection.
6. Coins, signs, orders and medals
7. Rare collections and samples of flora and fauna
Modern souvenir production, items of cultural value in mass or serial production are taken out without their certification as specific cultural values. Souvenir items are taken out on presenting sales receipts, cash receipts, cash receipts, price labels etc.
The following documents are required for obtaining a customs certificate for the items of cultural value:
a written declaration of intent;
a Xerox copy of the first page in the applicant's travel document (i.e. passport);
lists of items (over five items) made in two copies with the indication of
the author, date of production, method of production, name of the art item and its
cost;
in taking out items of a historic, artistic or any other cultural value two
photographs are presented (8x12 cm) for each;
when due, the documents on the right of ownership over the items declared for being taken out of the country are presented (including payment receipts, labels, deed of gift warrants etc).
The person authorized by the applicant providing the customs certification documentation of taking cultural values out of the Russian Federation should present a duly processed written power of attorney.
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