Wednesday, August 03, 2005

To and from Russia cheap international calls, calling cards and country code info

This post explains the cheapest way to make phone calls to and from Russia. If you simply want to pay a cheap rate when making calls to Russia, use a so called calling card or prepaid phone card.

It really couldn't be simpler to save yourself a fortune on your overseas calls. With a calling card, all you do is dial the access number (local or toll free number) before you dial your overseas number.

Too good to be true?

It sounds almost too good to be true, doesn’t it? Perhaps you’re thinking “Where’s the catch?” Well, there’s a small detail, a quick search on Google will get you hundred of sites selling calling cards. So how do you find a reputable online retailer that won’t rip you off with cards that do not work, or won’t give you any support in case of a problem?

After doing some research, I finally found that Cloncom is a reputable retailer with good rating from the Better Business Bureau that sells prepaid phone cards for Russia.

SpeedyPin is another BBB good rated retailer you may want to look at, although I can’t give you any opinion on this one because I never tried it myself.

As I always recommend better to start small, first with a $5 or $10 card to see how it works for you. In my experience it worked really well.

Calling instructions for calls to Russia


The Prefix, or calling code, or routing number, or country code (this goes by many names) for calling Russia, is +7.

Individual area codes for Russia are:

Area Name Area Code
Adygeyskaya (Maykop) 877
Altay (Barnaul) 385
Amurskaya (Blagoveshchensk) 416
Arkhangelsk 818
Astrakhan 851
Bashkir (Ufa) 347
Baykonur (Territory of Kazakhstan) 336
Belgorod 072
Bryansk 083
Buryat (Ulan-Ude) 301
Chechen (Grozny) 871
Chelyabinsk 351
Cherepovets 820
Chita 302
Chukot (Anadyr) 427
Chuvash (Cheboksary) 835
Dagestan (Makhachkala) 872
Ekaterinburg 343
Gorno-Altaysk 388
Ingush (Nazran) 873
Irkutsk 395
Ivanovo 093
Jewish (Birobidzhan) 426
Kabardino-Balkariya (Nalchik) 866
Kaliningrad 011
Kalmyk (Elista) 847
Kaluga 084
Kamchatka (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski) 415
Karachayevo-Cherkesiya 878
Kareliya (Petrozavodsk) 814
Kemerovo 384
Khabarovsk 421
Khakasskaya (Abakan) 390
Kirov 833
Komi (Syktyvkar) 821
Kostroma 094
Krasnodar 861
Krasnoyarsk 391
Kurgan 352
Kursk 071
Lipetsk 074
Magadan 413
Mary (Ioshkar-Ola) 836
Mineranye Vody 879
Mobile 901-903,905,906
Mobile cont 1 908-914,920-924
Mobile cont 2 916-918,926-928,960,961
Mordovian (Saransk) 834
Moscow 095
Moscow area 096
Murmansk 815
Naberezhnye Chelny 855
Nakhodka 5049
Nizhni Novgorod 831
Novgorod 816
Novosibirsk 383
Omsk 381
Orel 086
Orenburg 353
Penza 841
Perm 342
Primorskiy (Vladivostok) 423
Pskov 811
Rostov 863
Ryazan 091
Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) 424,5044
Salekhard 349
Samara 846
Saratov 845
Severnaya-Osetiya (Vladikavkaz) 867
Smolensk 081
Sochi 862
St Petersburg 812,813
Stavropol 865
Surgut 346
Tambov 075
Tartarstan 513
Tatar (Kazan) 843
Tolyatti 848
Tomsk 382
Tula 087
Tuva (Kizil) 394
Tver 082
Tyumen 345
Udmurt (Izhevsk) 341
Ulyanovsk 842
Veliky Novgorod 816
Vladimir 092
Volgograd 844
Vologda 817
Voronezh 073
Yakut (Yakutsk) 411
Yaroslavl 085


Here's how to make a phone call direct to Russia from America:

You have to dial 011 + 7 + AREA CODE + NUMBER.

But don't call Russia direct unless you want to spend a lot of money. Use a calling card or a prepaid phone service instead.

Some great prepaid phone cards for calling from Russia to the USA can also be found through Cloncom calling card search.


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