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« Last edited by ckmk47 on December 20, 2019, 10:41:03 AM »

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Re: Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #40 on: July 20, 2010, 09:42:31 AM »
going thursday. i read that the bal hatanya was locked up in st petersburg prison. can anyone confirm this?

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Re: Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #41 on: July 20, 2010, 09:51:01 AM »
u wanna tell me your itinerary and i can tell you tips about each city

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Re: Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #42 on: July 20, 2010, 10:44:23 AM »
thanks
thursday tlv-led
fri-mon nite st petersburg
mon nite led-dme
tues-fri morning moscow
fri morning- svo-kbp
friday drive to mezhibuzh via berdichev
shabbos-sunday mezhibuzh, drive to uman
monday-uman, drive to kiev
tues, wednesday kiev

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Re: Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #43 on: July 20, 2010, 11:32:53 AM »
http://is.gd/dzwua
Dan, you could put it to htsti I'm having trouble from my mobile.

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Re: Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #44 on: July 20, 2010, 11:35:09 AM »
Yup the Alter Rebbe was locked up in Petersburg, there is a museum where the jail once stood with a wax figure of the alter rebbe (which doesn't really resemble him...) it's on an island if im not mistaken.. (or atleast you have to take a boat there)

Good luck and enjoy your stay... where are you staying? Moscow has a few restaurants, but I hear the restaurant in Bolshaya Bronaya (which is more centrally located to the kremlin if I remember correctly, it's in a shul) is suppose to be very good.. it's a kavkazi restaurant, you probably haven't tried that yet. 


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Re: Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #45 on: July 20, 2010, 11:53:29 AM »
st pete - ambassador
moscow - ph ararat

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Re: Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #46 on: July 20, 2010, 11:53:59 AM »
are you sure he wasnt held at the peter and paul fortress?

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Re: Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #47 on: July 20, 2010, 12:16:27 PM »
thanks
thursday tlv-led
fri-mon nite st petersburg
mon nite led-dme
tues-fri morning moscow
fri morning- svo-kbp
friday drive to mezhibuzh via berdichev
shabbos-sunday mezhibuzh, drive to uman
monday-uman, drive to kiev
tues, wednesday kiev
im just a lil busy right now, but i will answer you later!

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Re: Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #48 on: July 21, 2010, 08:39:25 AM »
are you sure he wasnt held at the peter and paul fortress?

Yes it was the Peter and Paul fortress. The is another Jail, in  S. Petersburg called the Shpalerke were the previous Chabad Rebbe was incarcerated.

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Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #49 on: March 06, 2011, 11:43:42 AM »
If I were to have a 15 or 17 Hr stopover in SVO (Moscow) and I don't have a visa - am I able to enter Moscow or I'm stuck in the airport ?!

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Re: Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #50 on: March 06, 2011, 11:59:15 AM »
well you dont have a visa. whats your question? if the visa is optional?
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Re: Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #51 on: March 06, 2011, 12:14:24 PM »
well you dont have a visa. whats your question? if they only prefer that you have a visa but its unnecessary?

In some countries that require visas, they allow for a 24-48 hour exception in certain cities (PVG is one). I tried for it in Bangalore, India but they wouldn't hear of it. They even made a big deal about letting me transit for that long (it was about 10 hours) and assigned a shady looking guy to watch us in the lounge the whole night. Made me feel very uncomfortable

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Re: Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #52 on: March 06, 2011, 12:55:23 PM »
how can they enforce the 24-48 hours? just by seeing an airline ticket?

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Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #53 on: March 06, 2011, 12:59:09 PM »
well you dont have a visa. whats your question? if the visa is optional?

No my question is . I know you need a visa to enter but since I don't have a visa, and my stopover is really long - 15 hrs - will they give me a pass in to Russia for that time period ?

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Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #54 on: March 06, 2011, 01:00:25 PM »
In some countries that require visas, they allow for a 24-48 hour exception in certain cities (PVG is one).

How can I find out if SVO will allow that?

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Re: Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #55 on: March 06, 2011, 01:12:59 PM »
A few years back - I was once in SVO on my way out and there was a frum yid there that missed a connection to Israel and had to wait for the next flight. he told me that uncer no circumstance would they let him through passport control, even to a hotel on the airport...

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Re: Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #56 on: March 06, 2011, 01:16:54 PM »
kinda makes sense

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Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #57 on: March 06, 2011, 03:27:50 PM »
kinda makes sense

I'm not sure how normal that is, because the flight I wanna take has stopovers up to a full day! Or 17 hrs. So it's only right for them to let u go to a hotel (leave the airport)

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Re: Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #58 on: March 06, 2011, 04:11:43 PM »
I'm not sure how normal that is, because the flight I wanna take has stopovers up to a full day! Or 17 hrs. So it's only right for them to let u go to a hotel (leave the airport)

They will let you as long as they know who you are. For them to know who you are, you have to apply for a visa...

If you have the time, why dont you get a proper visa??

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Re: Russia & Ukraine Master Thread
« Reply #59 on: March 06, 2011, 04:19:45 PM »
its probably too expensive and too cumbersome for a mere 17 hours