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Arrived in Russia yesterday and spent the night at a nice hotel in Nalchik, but they did not do the registration as we were only staying one night.

Tonight we are staying in another small hotel in small town, in a half built hotel, but the 2 young girls running it will certainly not bother either with registration....

I will keep my receipts and hope for the best. As we are staying only 4 nights in Russia , before getting in Kazakh, it should be fine.

It seems that there is no set rule for that! All very confusing i agree!
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Arrived in Russia yesterday and spent the night at a nice hotel in Nalchik, but they did not do the registration as we were only staying one night.

Tonight we are staying in another small hotel in small town, in a half built hotel, but the 2 young girls running it will certainly not bother either with registration....

I will keep my receipts and hope for the best. As we are staying only 4 nights in Russia , before getting in Kazakh, it should be fine.

It seems that there is no set rule for that! All very confusing i agree!
As I understand it, the 3-day stay rule for any one city (hotel) generally applies, but doesn't apply to the requirement to get a registration within the first seven days (for that, a single-night stay would qualify for the hotel to process the registration). We had a couple of hotels quote the 3-day rule but one agreed once we told them it was our first registration.

Some hotels do the registration automatically (we now have 5 to date).

What isn't clear to me is whether or not you need to register if you won't be in the country for seven days. That will apply to us on our next two entries into Russia, so it would be useful to know. We'll try to get a registration on each subsequent entry, quoting the first entry requirement.

We're now about two days from Irkutsk and then on to Mongolia.
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I was in Russia for over a nearly 2 months last summer. I entered and exited 3 different times. I was on a tourist visa so it might be different

From kazak to Barnoul the out into Mongolia south of Ulan Ude (12 days), I was not registered once, they never checked when I left.

I went into Altai Russia from Mongolia and spent 8 or 9 days camping in Altai, then went back through the same border crossing. No registration, no one asked.

I entered Russia the 3rd time south of Ulan Ude. I rode for 1 month in Russia and left from Sakhalin island. This time I was registered 2 times. Once on a little hotel somewhere on the BAM road and another time on Sakhalin island. When leaving Sakhalin, they glanced at the paperwork but didn't care about it much.

If you get to a border where they ask for registration, you can always say "I asked them to register me at this hotel but they wouldn't".
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Just be safe folks ,, get it at every opportunity if you can. Better to be safe than sorry.
With me ,, every hotel I walked in ,, as I handed over the passport ,, first thing out of my mouth was stamp please then I would stamp my left hand with right fist. They all nodded. Next morning ,, it was always inserted.
Especially if you are heading west ,, towards Ukraine or Moldova. Like I've said ,, when I left Russia to Trinistra ,, the guard ,, pretty much looked at all of them ,, I had some 20 sheets.
I just can not believe ,, cities in Ukraine, with great people,, which I've enjoyed so much ,, only two years ago are now bleeding.
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