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Does anyone have experience with getting the necessary permit for travel through Chukotka?
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And how do you propose to travel through Chukotka, where there are no roads?

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And how do you propose to travel through Chukotka, where there are no roads?

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Have you already done cycle tours in winter in northern countries?
I haven't, but would not chose Chukotka for the first tour.
I applied last year for a permit, but do not know if I would have got one. For me it was a too high risk of just beeing returned on the airport and the flights aren't cheap.
I ended up in cycling to Magadan, what was also a good experience.
Probably you know Dimitri Kieffer, he got through Chukotka on his nexus expedition, but did not use a bike then.
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Planning trip to northern Scandinavia this Feb as a trial.
I know of Dmitri Kieffer and tried emailed but got no response a while back. Maybe I'll try again.
Met Karl Bushby last year (he did similar to Dmitri) and discussed a little. Have also been in touch with a Japanese guy who cycled it a few years ago - he was very helpful and positive (but he did it without a permit, which I think was easy enough for him because he cycled across the borders whereas I would plan to fly in to Yakutsk so I'm not willing to risk it).

Chris - how did you go about applying for the permit?
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Dimitri is currently in Mongolia and seems not to be often online.
The problem when trying to get info about the border permit was, that few people wanted to give an answer, usually they want to sell it in a package. I was told that for Chukotka you need two different permits.
For the border permit we just wrote a mail to FSB, but got no answer. But in the end the permit was there (strange story, but as I said I would not count on it, when a flight is related to that). This was for Tuva.

PS with flight I mean a flight from Yakutsk further to Chukotka (Yakutia has flights, but they are lot more expensive than a flight from Moskva to Magadan, btw it is really bad for people there that they charge so much for the flights, I met cyclists from Yakutsk, that flew back from Magadan and the direct flight is as expensive as a flight from Yakutsk to Novosibirsk and then to Magadan, same applies for the flight Ust-Nera to Yakutsk), it is difficult to reach Chukotka by land. You can in summer take a boat or try in winter what Dimitri has done, but he split his trip over several years.
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...a Japanese guy who cycled it a few years ago - he was very helpful and positive (but he did it without a permit, which I think was easy enough for him because he cycled across the borders whereas I would plan to fly in to Yakutsk so I'm not willing to risk it).
Ha, I can't say that I would think it is easier to ride to Yakutsk than fly! And why the fixation on Chukotka? You can fly to Yakutsk and if you don't get permits for Chukotka you could ride to Magadan instead?

Just to be clear, are you on a bicycle or a motorcycle?
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