Call Russia

Talk360 is the best calling solution for making reliable international or local calls to any feature phone or smartphone across the globe. With the Talk360 app, you can call any landline or mobile phone in Russia. What’s great about that? Only the caller needs to have the calling app installed. The receiver of the call does not notice that you are calling via an app. Calling friends, family, clients, or business relations in Russia with the Talk360 app is easy & saves you a lot of money.

In this blog, we tell you about helpful tips on how to call Russia with Talk360, the benefits of the Talk360 international calling app, how it differs to other international calling services, & lastly, we present you with the fun facts about this amazing country.

Let’s dive in!

Staying in contact with people who are in a different country results in high calling rates & difficult to understand calling criteria. Now, Talk360 makes calling Russia easier & affordable. With the Talk360 calling app, you can call Russia at low per-minute rates.

To call a fixed line in Russia from the United States, simply follow these easy to follow dialing tips:

• first dial 011, the U.S. exit code;
• next dial 7, the country code for Russia;
• then dial the area code (1-2 digits. See a sample calling code list below);
• and finally, dial the phone number (5–7 digits).

If you’re calling Russia from on the globe, you just need to do the following:

• place the exit code: It’s also referred to as the IDD code (International Direct Dialing) or ISD code (International Subscriber Dialing). For most countries, it’s 00 or +. For the USA and Canada, it’s 011;
• country code: Each country has a unique phone code;
• area code: This is the code for a part of Russia. It’s generally a simple area or a city;
• local number: The local number you would like to call.

Here is a list of the largest area codes and town calling codes in Russia:

Click to expand the list with area codes

Region	Area Code
Altai Territory	385
Amur Region	416
Arkhangelsk	818
Astrakhan	851
Baikonur	33
Belgorod	472
Bryansk	483
Chechen Republic	871
Chelyabinsk	351
Cherepovets	820
Chita	302
Chukotka Autonomous District	427
Chuvashi Republic	835
Ekaterinburg	343
Ingushi Republic	873
Irkutsk	395
Jewish Autonomous Region	426
Kabardino-Balkarian Republic	866
Kaliningrad	40
Kaluga	484
Kamchatka Region	415
Karachayevo-Cherkessian Republic	878
Kemerovo	384
Khabarovsk Territory	421
Kirov	833
Komi Republic	821
Kostroma	494
Krasnodar Territory	861
Krasnoyarsk Territory	391
Kurgan	352
Kursk	471
Leningrad region	813
Lipetsk	474
Magadan	413
Mineranye Vody	879
Moscow	495, 496, 498, 499
Murmansk	815
Naberezhnye Chelny	855
Nizhni Novgorod	831
Novosibirsk	383
Omsk	381
Orel	486
Orenburg	353
Penza	841
Perm	342
Primorie territory	423
Pskov	811
Republic of Adygeya	877
Republic of Altai	388
Republic of Bashkortostan	347
Republic of Buryatia	301
Republic of Daghestan	872
Republic of Kalmykia	847
Republic of Karelia	814
Republic of Khakassia	390
Republic of Marij El	836
Republic of Mordovia	834
Republic of North Ossetia	867
Republic of Sakha	411
Republic of Tatarstan	843
Republic of Tuva	394
Rostov	863
Ryazan	491
Sakhalin Region	424
Samara	846
Saratov	845
Sevastopol	869
Simferopol	36
Smolensk	481
Sochi	862
St Petersburg	812
Stavropol territory	865
Surgut	346
Tambov	475
Tolyatti	848
Tomsk	382
Tula	487
Tver	482
Tyumen	345
Udmurtian Republic	341
Ulyanovsk	842
Veliky Novgorod	816
Vladimir	492
Volgograd	844
Vologda	817
Voronezh	473
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District	349
Yaroslavl	485

You know now how to dial Russia. With Talk360, you only have to buy airtime and enter the mobile number you want you want to reach.

• The name Red Square has nothing to do with communism, but derives from the word "krasnyi", which once meant "beautiful".
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• The icicles hanging from the gutters in Moscow in winter are so enormous that the pavements below are cordoned off - as they'd kill you if they fell on your head.
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• There is a bronze sculpture of a dog with a shiny nose at Ploshchad Revolutsii metro station - it is shiny because it's supposedly good luck to touch it.
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• That isn't the only sculpture of a dog in Russia - there's also this monument to Laika, the hound that went to space in 1957.
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• Chicken's foot soup (kholodets) is a traditional delicacy. Yummy.
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• They love cloakrooms - don't expect to get very far into a restaurant/bar/museum/gallery without being asked to put your coat and/or bag in a cloakroom. The best are efficiently run by a team of baboushkas.
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• Giving flowers to residents can be a delicate point of etiquette. You should always make sure you give them in odd numbers, unless going to a funeral, when even numbers are the rule.
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• Russian cars shrink as one leaves the capital, and hairstyles get weirder.
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• Russians are the world's fourth biggest drinkers, according to WHO statistics, behind Belarus, Moldova and Lithuania. Britain comes 25th.
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• The word "vodka" derives for the word "voda", which means "water".
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• Moscow's underground is perhaps the world's most beautiful.
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• Padlock trees can be found in Moscow - couples place them here to prove their love.
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• It's considered wimpy to lower the ear flaps on your Ushanka (fur hat) unless the temperature drops below -20C.
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• There are around 11 million more women than men.
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• It's not all tundra and taiga - you can go trekking on volcanoes.
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• It has more time zones (11) than any other country, but since 2011 has only used nine.
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• For a brief period in the Nineties, PepsiCo had one of the largest submarine fleets in the world courtesy of a deal with Russia.
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• It has one of the world's most terrifying walkways: the 439-metre SkyBridge.
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• 1,800 skiers and snowboarders once hit the slopes of Sheregesh wearing bikinis in a bid to break a Guinness World Record.
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• Around 10,000 British tourists visit the country each year, and over 90 per cent of them go only to Moscow and/or St Petersburg.