Advent. Photo: © Ewa Ahlin/Johnér

Opening Hours and Official Holidays

Expedition hours: Monday-Friday from 9 am to noon Moscow Standart Time.

Visa section:
The Visa Section is open for applications on Monday-Thursday from 9 am to noon. Passports and decisions are given out the same days from 4 to 4:30 pm. On Fridays , the visa section is closed. Telephone hours are 2:30 to 4 pm the same days. 

Note: Special time table for working days during the high season at the visa section is available both on Swedish and Russian pages of the visa section on this home page.

In 2010 and 2011 the Consulate General of Sweden in Saint Petersburg will be officially closed on the following days:

2010
...
28, 29 October – Closed for Internal Planning
5 November
– Local Holiday
24 December – Day before Christmas 
31 December – New Year Eve

2011

3, 7 January
8 March
22 April
9 May
6, 13 June
4 November
23, 26 December