Telephone numbers in Russia

Zones of ABC codes byfederal subjects
Country	Russia
Continent	Europe
Regulator	Roskomnadzor,Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media
Numbering plan type	Closed
NSN length	10
Format	(ABC) xxx-xx-xx
Numbering plan	Russian Federation
Last updated	2024[1]
Country code	7
International access	8~10
Long-distance	8

Telephone numbers in Russia are administered byRoskomnadzor, and theMinistry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation.^[2]Russia's nationaltelephone numbering plan comprises four levels ofdestination routing codes with local, zone, country, and international scopes, implementing aclosed numbering plan, in which the number of digits of all national significant numbers assigned to subscriber telephones is fixed at ten,^[3] with three digits for the area code, and a seven-digit subscriber number which includes a zone code of up to two digits.

Russia is a member of theInternational Telecommunication Union (ITU) and participates in the international numbering plan provided by recommendationsE.164 andE.123, using thetelephone country code 7, which is shared withKazakhstan, designating two area codes for routing calls to that country. Country code 7 was originally assigned to theSoviet Union, and continued to be used by the fifteensuccessor states after the 1991dissolution of the Soviet Union. All but two successor states switched to new, individual country codes from the3xx and9xx ranges between 1993 and 1998.

8 ABC xxx-xx-xx (where ABC is the area code)

• e.g.8 499 xxx-xx-xx (to Moscow, fixed line)
• e.g.8 812 234-56-78 (to St. Petersburg, fixed line)
• e.g.8 985 xxx-xx-xx (to a mobile number issued byMTS inMoscow)

Pre-Selected Operator:8-tone-10 International number or+

• e.g. 8-10 44 20 7946-0123 (to London/UK) or +44 20 7946-0123
• e.g. +7 727 xxx-xx-xx (to Almaty/Kazakhstan)

• +7 ABC xxx-xx-xx (where ABC is the area code)

The dialing code range 4xx was introduced on 1 December 2005 to replace 0xx, in order to make it possible to adopt theITU recommendation of 0 and 00 dialing prefixes for local and international dialing respectively. The old '095' dialing code, along with 19 other Russian area codes starting with '0', expired on 31 January 2006.^[6]

In a press conference in December 2013Minister of Emergency Situations,Vladimir Puchkov said that the unified system runs in a full pilot mode from 2014 and will fully enter to operational mode in 2016.^[8]

In 2014, following theRussian annexation of Crimea,Republic of Crimea andSevastopol were integrated into the Russian numbering plan.

On 7 May 2022, following theannexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporozhye oblasts, the four oblasts were integrated into the Russian numbering plan.^[1]

Telephone numbers inAbkhazia use two area codes – 840 and 940 – in the Russian dialing plan. Until 1992, Abkhazia had a single telephone numbering system with Russia. In April 1996, theMinistry of Communications of the Russian Federation limited international telephone communications in Abkhazia, retaining only 16 outgoing and 24 incoming telephone channels of the 151 incoming and 182 outgoing channels that operated previously. On 15 February 1997, an agreement was signed between Russia and Georgia, which provided for a change in the communication scheme of Abkhazia with the outside world and switching channels to Georgia. The agreement met with resentment in Abkhazia, whose leadership accused Georgia and Russia of violating an earlier agreement that provided for the restoration of the communications that existed before 1992.^[9]

On 28 September 2009, after Russia recognised Abkhazia's independence, Russia and Abkhazia signed a Memorandum of Cooperation through which Abkhazia was given a telephone code from numbering zone 7 and switched to the Russian numbering plan on 1 January 2010. Abkhazian numbers can be accessed from abroad through country code 7 assigned by theInternational Telecommunication Union toRussia.^[10] Until 2009, they could also be accessed via theGeorgian country code+995.

Telephone numbers inSouth Ossetia use two area codes – 850 and 929 – in the Russia numbering plan zone.^[11]

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