Opening Hours and Official Holidays

Visa section:
The Visa Section is open for applications on Monday-Wednesday and Friday from 9 am to noon. Passports and decisions are given out the same days from 4 to 4:30 pm. On Thursdays, 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 2008 the Consulate General of Sweden in Saint Petersburg will be officially closed on the following days:

2009
1 January – New Year
2 January – Local Holiday
9 March – Local Holiday
10 April – Good Friday 
13 April – Easter Monday
1 May – First of May
21 May – Ascension
22 May – Holiday
12 June – Russian National Day
19 June – Midsummer Eve
6 November – Local Holiday
24 December – Day before Christmas 
25 December – Christmas 
31 December – New Year Eve