Rules and recommendations

Dear tourists!
Project PMR-TOURS (Tours in PMR (Transnistria)) is informing you about the rules about crossing the border of PMR (Transnistria) and is giving you some tips during your stay:

Foreign tourists that wish to visit PMR(Transnistria), are obliged to cross the border only at the international checkpoints:

  1. Cuciurgan-Pervomaisc (coming from Ukraine, since February 2022 this checkpoint does not work).
  2. Bender-Chisinau (coming from Moldova)
  3. Dubasari-Chisinau (coming from Moldova)
  4. Ribnita-Rezina (coming from Moldova)
  5. Camenca(coming from Moldova)

The EU-and US-citizens are entitled to come to the PMR (Transnistria) on the basis of travel passport or ID-card. European and US-American citizens dont need any visa for entering PMR(Transnistria).

At the border of PMR (Transnistria) you (for free) will receive your personal migration card. Keep it during your whole period of stay in the PMR(Transnistria).Inform the border officers about your address ,and also about the planned time of your stay in the PMR(Transnistria).

Leaving the PMR (Transnistria) show your migration card to border officers.

If you enter the PMR (Transnistria) by your own car or by a rented car, you will have to buy a Pridnestrovian (Transnistrian) insurance as well as a car vignette for the period of your stay in the PMR (Transnistria). You can do it right at the border of PMR(Transnistria). If you have a rented car, it is obligatory to have car papers in original. At your request we can meet you at the border and help you with translations. For further details you can send your request to both e-mails:transnistria.tour@yahoo.com and smolenskij.sa@gmail.com

Tips and usefull information:

  1. We recommend to take money in cash (Lei, Euro, US-Dollars,Ukranian Hrivna or Russian Roubles), because the international ATMs (Visa, Mastercard, American Express) DONT WORK in the PMR(Transnistria).
  2. An average meal costs about 10 Euro.
  3. It is prohibited to take pictures of:
    -MGB-building (there are respective prohibiting signs there)
    -Checkpoints of peacekeeping forces and other military objects
    It is allowed to take pictures of: monuments,houses of culture,streets,shops,parks and other social objects.
  4. Drinking alcohol in public places is prohibited!

Discover PMR (Transnistria) to yourself!