Russia → Abkhazia: visa and length of stay
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How many days can you stay in Abkhazia?
Short answer
90 days
no visa needed; counting details below
- Continuously per entry
- 90 days
- How the days are counted
- afresh on every entry
- Does leaving reset the counter
- Yes — leaving and re-entering starts the clock again
Visa-free for up to 90 consecutive days per entry. Russian citizens only need their domestic (internal) passport; children under 14 need a birth certificate instead of a passport. To stay longer than 90 days you need an international passport and a visa issued by the Abkhaz Foreign Ministry.
Source: Entry and permitted-stay rule (mid.apsny.land)
Abkhazia: days of stay calculator
Count your allowed days in Abkhazia from your entry and exit dates — based on your passport and the counting rule that applies.
Calculate by datesCheck before you travel
- Entry: no visa needed; permitted stay — 90 days.
- Vehicle insurance: insurance is bought at the border.
Worth knowing about the route
- Georgia regards Abkhazia as its own territory. Under Georgian law, foreigners may enter it legally only from Georgia, from the town of Zugdidi via the Inguri crossing point (the Abkhaz side is open from 08:00 to 19:00). Georgian law treats entry from Russia through the Psou crossing, by sea or by air as a crime, punishable by a fine or up to 4 years in prison (Article 322¹ of the Criminal Code of Georgia). Neither Georgia nor Abkhazia officially says whether foreigners may cross at Inguri in their own car. Ask the consular department of the Abkhaz Foreign Ministry when you apply for your entry permit.
- Entering from Russia (Psou crossing). The Abkhaz Foreign Ministry requires you to register the car at the Psou crossing: temporary registration costs 250 Russian roubles per month. Abkhaz third-party motor insurance is compulsory and is sold at the crossing. Russian OSAGO insurance and the international Green Card are not valid in Abkhazia. The Psou crossing is temporarily closed when there is a threat of drone attacks.
Can you bring your own vehicle?
- Maximum term
- no data
- How the term is counted
- no data
- Mandatory vehicle insurance
- insurance is bought at the border
The same country with other passports
Length-of-stay rules come from several sources. Some are verified by the OpenVan.camp Editorial team against official sources and show a verification date. The rest are extracted from open sources, most often Wikipedia, and are shown with a source link and the date they were retrieved. Vehicle import rules are shown only once verified. The underlying visa requirement matrix is the passport-index-data dataset (MIT licence), updated 17 February 2026.
Reference data, not legal advice. Rules change without notice — check with the consulate or at the border.
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