Galina first in line for Norwegian visa

Re-opening of Norwegian consulate in Arkhangelsk last September gives an opportunity for all residents of the Arkhangelsk region as well as for the inhabitants of Nenets autonomous okrug to get Schengen stamp in the passport without mediators and excessive red tapes.

The so-called Pomor visa needs no invitation and can be issued for the period of up to five years.

Galina Kuznetzova, the bank officer, became the first applicant in the Honorary Consulate of Norway in Arkhangelsk to get the so-called Pomor Visa. Galina is originally from Murmansk and therefore knows Norway quite well. She has visited Norway several times and finds this country very attractive for travelling.

She is fun of fishing and this was the main reasons of why she chooses Norway to travel on vacation. She would prefer to travel together with her son but he lives in St. Petersburg and has to use the travel agency for getting his Norwegian visa.

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- We hope to become an efficient and reliable channel for the people who have a wish and possibility to visit the wonderful northern country and our closest neighbor in the North, says Andrey Shalyov, the Honorary Consul of Norway in Arkhangelsk.

- The region is connected to Norway by many contacts which grew up sufficiently for the last years and continue to develop. For the years of Barents cooperation Arkhangelsk got multitude of professional, private, relational ties to Norway.

Norway and Russia are connected by common objectives and challenges in the development of Arctic, its unique and vulnerable nature, he stressed. The borders should not any more divide our people. They should be the gates that open possibilities for cooperation, communication, getting new experiences and knowledge.