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Question Bordercrossing Russia / China
Hello all,

I am preparing my journey next year. Could not find any info on the opening of border posts between China and Russia for international travelers. Did any of you cross at one this borders (with or without the bike)?

1. Suifenhe (Mudanjang) / Pogranicoyj (Ussurijsk).

2. Heihe / Blagovescensk.

3. Manzhouli / Zabajkalsk.

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I know guys who have crossed between Borzya and Manzhouli.

Cant help with the others, tho Heihe-Blagoveschensk is one of the busiest border crossings ... loads of ferry traffic across river. I believe they recently signed an agreement to build an international bridge there.

I am sure whatever Chinese tour guide you hire will be able to provide you with details of what is possible from Chinese side.
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Hello Colebatch and others,

thank you very much for answering. Its very difficult to find information.

The agencies I contacted so far, dont want to give me any information, most of them just send me prices that a out of this world without any details.

Manzhouli / Zabajkalsk: You are the second person that tells me, this border is open to international travelers.


Suifenhe (Mudanjang) / Pogranicoyj (Ussurijsk): There is a train, that goes from Vladivostok to Beijing, and somebody said, that I could take this train.

Nobody that crossed overland from Russia to China?

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In general people don't cross that border because its crazy expensive, re Chinese tour guides.

People don't want to pay the chinese tour guide money, and people don't want to be babysat while on their motorcycle.

So for 99+% of the crossings, the riders stick to Mongolia and Russia.
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I put the list of all border crossings of the RF in my dropbox, see link below:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...heckpoints.pdf

It will show opening periods, times, bilateral or international etc etc.

Could only find this list in Russian.

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Hello again.

@ Colebatch: Thank you for the info, understood. But are this borders open for international travelers (without a bike) ?

@Jeroen: Thank you. Will send it to a friend that speaks Russian better then I do. More later about this.

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Manzhouli
Crossed over from China > Russia several times during 1996 - 1998 and 2000 - 2002 but all the trips were business related and I am a foreigner with a resident permit in China, no motorbikes involved during the crossings - just 4x4's with China registration / plates and we stayed in Russia between 2 - 4 days only.
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Hello all,


@TBR-China

Thank you for the information, but this means you crossed like a Chinese citizen.



@Jervig

Thank you again for this list again. Here is what I got from my friend according to your list:

1. Suifenhe (Mudanjang) / Pogranicoyj (Ussurijsk).
127.102.
(by car)
(by train)
(by bus)
(operating continiously )


2. Heihe / Blagovescensk. (this was hard to find in the listing as it's listed neatrly at the end of it)
401. 2.
(means that in summer time over river by ferry, in winter also on ice-road)
(by air)
(by bus)
(operating continiously)


3. Manzhouli / Zabajkalsk.
40.39.
(by car)
(by train)
(by bus)
(operating continiously)


This means, that all three border crossings are open. But the list did not confirm, that a tourist (non Russian, or non Chinese) can cross there. Will phone the Russian embassy, maybe they can give some info.

My next step will be, that I choose one of them and tell my visa agency in Germany.

Thank you so far.

Greetings from Finland
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Bilateral or multilateral is indicated in 5th column.

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Just saw this thread; I crossed at Manzhouli in 2008 (US citizen). The Russian border guards at Zabaikalsk were a friendly bunch; we encountered them later at dinner and they gave us a huge bottle of Jack Daniels and one of them offered me his border guard hat (I declined, no where to put on the moto).

While China is generally a beautiful/fascinating country, I did not enjoy riding there, mainly because of the requirement to have a guide. We were on the guides' artificial schedule, weren't even supposed to stop for pictures, etc. It really sucks ALL the fun out of riding.
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