Whatever they give you here, with a request for transfer on the territory of the Russian Federation, do not take it in any case. A group of stand-ins is working. Good luck to you. Be vigilant. In general, the border guards are working fine. A lot of things depend on various factors, the main thing is from the stars on the shoulder straps and from the stars in the sky!
You get from Astrakhan in an hour. From Atyrau in 4-5 hours. For everything about everything, about an hour at both customs offices. As of May 2022, PCR is needed only upon arrival in Kazakhstan. But if there is a third privika, then you do not need it. Guys from Astakhani and Atyrau are driving beads. 15,000 Tenge and 3,000 Rubles, respectively. They gather people in the parking lot at the railway station. The landmark is beads with Armenian numbers, as a rule. The train has been running since May. He leaves Astrakhan in the evening. Tickets are available on the KTZ website. Good luck to everyone
The controller doesn't seem to know Russian, I obviously don't look like a Kazakh. He checked my passport for 15 minutes, gave it back, began to leave, called again and asked for a passport. Well, the guy on the way out translated what he wanted. It's not clear what I was looking for. It was the first hour of the night.
We are not so happy with the decision of the Kazakh leadership. We drove from Tver to this point exactly 1800 km . We met not badly , but in a word , because of the fucking Pandemic , they were not allowed to travel to Uzbekistan . Vaccination and PCR tests are underway all over the world. Even though my wife and I were vaccinated.If I'm going to Uzbekistan, then how and what have I lost in your country. The border between Russia and Uzbekistan is Kazakhstan, so I could not get to my homeland . So that you don't have such problems, Kazakhs. You just lost the rest of your respect. As this country was backward and underdeveloped , it will continue to remain so . In a word, SHAME ON YOU 👎
The only border where we were forced to take all the things out of the car, although we did not resemble migrant workers with a car loaded to the top. Just a family going on vacation to relatives. After driving for two days, my husband just dumped the junk on the asphalt, showing two bottles of good Kazastan cognac for friends as a gift, which surprised the controller very much. Good work, young border guards!
In terms of control, everything is good, fast and without complaints.
But in front of the post there is a group of people asking to be taken to the Russian Federation, all quite persistent and untrustworthy in appearance, very fast
I liked everything, except how to get from the Kazakh border to the Russian one. 3.5 hours of waiting for passing transport. Is it really impossible to solve this problem for people???? There is a 2.5-hour wait at the Russian post. There are only two lanes in operation, they work without haste. I don't care about people.
A native border checkpoint from Kazakhstan to Russia called Kotyaevka. A great place to leave and enter from/to your homeland.
The PK RK staff is very polite, professional, they let you through quickly.
It's terrible! We waited in line with three children for an hour! They took out the whole brain at the checkpoint! The queue in both directions is the only one because of this huge queue!