Dear Colleagues,

We would inform you that an official invitation to visit Russia is issued by special state authorities and the process takes about 1,5 months. Sobolev Institute of Mathematics just submits the data to be processed. To do that we need the following
data from you:
- a scanned copy of the first page of your passport (where the photograph is placed),
- your answers to the questions below:
(1) Family name
(2) Name
(3) Other names (middle initial)
(4) Sex
(5) Date of birth
(6) Place of birth (country, region, city)
(7) Citizenship (country)
(8) Passport number
(9) Passport issued (date)
(10) Passport expires (date)
(11) Affiliation
(12) Position
(13) Postal address of your department
(14) Postal address of your place of residence (country, region, city)
(15) Date of arrival in Russia (we expect about June, 21)
(16) Date of departure from Russia (we expect about June, 27)
(17) Please, indicate if you are going to visit other cities in Russia (different from Novosibirsk)
(18) Country and city (with a Russian Consulate) where you plan to apply for your visa.

NOTE: Please, check that you passport is valid until December 27, 2010 (6 months after you departure from Russia). Also, we strongly recommend you to have a medical insurance valid for Russia.

In all questions related to visa applications please, contact me,

Nikolay Abrosimov (abrosimov@math.nsc.ru)

© Институт математики им. С. Л. Соболева Сибирского отделения Российской академии наук, 2010