A vehicle is granted up to 3 months temp import permit - subject to that or longer overal visa validity. It can easily be extended to up to a year subject to the same - and that you do it before the 3 months expires.
It is quite in order to leave it and exit without it and return later (I did/do it all the time, but am no longer under visas now).
Some people get misled by their own passport stamps. If they show a car instead of an aeroplane it only means you entered RUS at a road border, not an airport, not that you drove the car - or piloted the jumbo jet!
If shipping the vehicle out sooner than drive/riding it, ensure the Customs cancel the permit - otherwise they will think it is still in RUS and will be seeking Duty on it. On entry, Customs's computor shows all previous vehicles you brought in and took out, via your Passport details.
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