PASSPORT AND VISA REQUIREMENTS The Organizing Committee will send official invitation upon your request. Please fill in the form below and forward it to our contact address FORM FOR OFFICIAL INVITATION FROM THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Family name_____________________________ First name ____________________________________ Date of birth: Date______________Month_______________Year________________
Sex: Male_______ Female__________
Citizenship_____________________________________________________________________________
Country of birth_______________________ Place of birth (city)_____________________
The place where you live permanently: State/Province/County ____________________________
The place where you will apply for visa (Russian Consulate): Country/City_______________ Full name of your institution___________________________________________________________
Position/Title _____________________
Complete working address: Country______________ Postal code_______________ City__________________ Street__________________ Building/house number __________________
Phone number___________________ fax number ___________________e-mail:___________________ Passport details: number___________ Data of issue_____________ valid till______________
Address where to send the original invitation __________________________________________ Please attach a page(s) of you passport with your photo and passport number.
Please check whether your passport is valid for not less than 6 month until the last date of you departure from Russia. Participants are strongly advised to check on visa requirements with their nearest Russian Embassy or Consulate. TRAVELLING AND TOURIST SERVICE There are three international airports in Moscow. Aeroexpress train connection exists between the Domodedovo, Sheremet'evo, Vnukovo airports and the city centre.
There is no regular flight connection between Kursk and most of international airports.
Participants are recommended to arrive by train Moscow-Kursk No105. The participants of the post-conference tour are recommended to return Moscow by the train No83 from Liski
(Voronezh region). Participants should book and bye train tickets by themselves via electronic booking systems or travel agents. Touristic assistance and special needs such as meeting at the airport, transfers in Moscow, booking of train tickets to Kursk and back to Moscow, hotel booking at lower prices in Moscow and elsewhere, individual tours over Russia etc. will be possible via the Technical conference partner - UniFest by special request: isfwp@unifest.ru. RELATED EVENTS: Those who are interested in more extensive scientific tour in Russia could concern themselves with Ultra-Continental WRB Field Workshop in Central Sakha (Yakutia), East Siberia, 17-23 of August. This tour is a rare opportunity to see and discuss with specialists in soil classification unique and really fascinating ultra-continental permafrost-affected soils. ISWP-XII Organizers hope that these events linked in time will attract to our Symposium and Field Seminar specialists in soil classification who are particularly interested in classification of paleosols. Information on Ultra-continental WRB Field Workshop can be found in the Newsletter of IUSS Commission 1.4:
http://www.iuss.org/images/stories/newsletters/IUSS_soil_classification_newsletter4.pdf. ACCOMODATION AND EXCURSIONS IN MOSCOW If you would like to stay in Moscow before or after the conference, you could apply to the
Technical conference partner - UniFest Travel for the hotel reservation, meeting at the airport and railway tickets. Please, send you requests to E-mail: isfwp@unifest.ru.
UniFest Congress can offer the Moscow city tour, including: ž Moscow city bus tour with English speaking guide ISFWP-XII, August 10-15 2012 ž Kremlin Tour ž Visiting of Uspensky and Arkhangelsky Cathedral The price of the tour is 3000 rubles (about 75 euro). The price includes: one meal (breakfast or dinner, depending on the tour date and time), transportation, English speaking guide, entrance tickets to the Kremlin. The payment of this tour could be made by the same way as the payment for the hotel
accommodation (see Accomodation).
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