Living in Russia as a Foreigner: The People Who Actually Do It
There is a small group of foreigners who moved to Russia and kept filming: supermarket prices in Moscow, winter in a Siberian village, a Brazilian learning Russian with his wife's family, a Frenchman commuting to Skolkovo. Most of them are warm about the country, and that warmth is itself information — it says something about what daily life feels like from the inside.
This section collects them properly. Each profile says who the person is, where they live, how long they have been there, what their channel does well, and where we add a correction if a number or a rule has changed. Their experience is real; it is also one apartment, one city, one income level. We say so on every page.
Practical questions — visas, banking, rent, prices — are answered in our big guides. Here you get the human version.
Roster checked September 2026
Meet the storytellers
Filter by content language, city or topic.
Travelling with Russell
Australia → Moscow
Supermarket receipts: the same basket in a cheap chain and an expensive one, filmed end to end.
Travelling with RussellWild Siberia
United States → Slyudyanka, Lake Baikal · In Russia since 2022
Immigration and residence paperwork told from the inside, mistakes included.
Wild SiberiaSurvival Russia
Denmark → A village in the taiga
Winter as a working problem: heating, water, roads, machinery that has to start.
Survival RussiaCountryside Acres
Canada → Nizhny Novgorod region · In Russia since 2024
The first two years of a farm from scratch — what breaks, what it costs, who helps.
Countryside AcresEnglishman In Russia
United Kingdom → Moscow
Which brands and products are actually on the shelves this month.
Englishman In RussiaEXPAT American
United States → Moscow · In Russia since 2022
Small and border cities: Vyborg-type towns, provincial centres, regional fairs.
EXPAT AmericanGabrielle Duvoisin
France → Moscow (Skolkovo) · In Russia since 2022
Residence permits and eVisa, told step by step from her own file.
Gabrielle DuvoisinAlexandre Frussien
France → Moscow · In Russia since 2008
Work and hiring: what a French speaker can actually be employed to do here.
Alexandre FrussienThomasovitch
France → Moscow region
Regional cities in short form: Kazan, Irkutsk, Siberia, on a small budget.
ThomasovitchVem a Mim Língua Russa
Brazil → The Russian provinces, by car
The Russian provinces by car, filmed in Portuguese and in Russian conversation.
Vem a Mim Língua RussaRussia by city
Where they actually live — and what to check before you follow them there.
Questions people actually ask
One question, several foreign residents, and our own numbers.
The practical side
Visas, money, rent and prices — the parts that need data, not anecdotes.
How did this land?
One tap. No account, no email, no cookie banner.
Written by Vlad Lario
Russian in Lisbon. I read both sides and write down what differs.
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