The 2026 exam for migrants

Sections of the site

There is more here than the exam. Choose what you need:

• Children at school Testing on admission to school: eleven grades, a speaking and a written part
• Driving licence Replacing a foreign driving licence: who has to, by when, and what they sit
• Work The work permit: deadlines, documents, how much to pay each month and what to do if a payment is missed
• Migration registration Who files the arrival notice, by when, and what you keep
• Useful Translation, documents and what a patent costs

Four purposes — four different exams

There is one exam, but its composition and pass marks depend on why you are taking it.

• Work patent or work permit22 tasks, pass mark 11 out of 22, 80 minutes. There is no oral part.
• Temporary residence permit (RVP)34 tasks, pass mark 19 out of 38, 90 minutes. A speaking section appears.
• Residence permit (VNZh)38 tasks, pass mark 21 out of 42, 90 minutes.
• Russian citizenshiptwo separate exams. Russian language: 35 tasks, pass mark 31 out of 44. History and law: 36 tasks, pass mark 28 out of 40. 90 minutes each.

Citizens of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan do not need a patent — they work in Russia without one. They need the exam only for temporary residence, a residence permit and citizenship.

The figures above come from the official specifications of Rosobrnadzor, not from second-hand accounts. There is no price here because there is none in the documents: it is set by the institution that administers the exam.

The thing most candidates do not know: a total score alone is not enough. At every level there are separate mandatory minimums for individual sections, and failing any one of them fails the whole exam, however much you scored elsewhere.

The patent shows this most clearly: the section minimums — 6 for Russian language, 2 for history, 3 for law — add up to exactly 11, which is the entire pass mark. There is no margin. Preparing "in general" is therefore useless: you need to know your own weak section.

Try it right now

You can start without leaving this page. Three tasks at patent level — with the breakdown and the audio, like the other four hundred and three.

1. Выберите правильный вариант: «Вчера я ___ в поликлинику».

   Listen
   • пойдуyour answer«Пойду» is the future tense. With «вчера» it contradicts the meaning of the sentence.
   • ходилcorrect
   • хожуyour answer«Хожу» is the present tense and does not combine with «вчера». A past-tense form is needed.

   The word «вчера» (yesterday) marks past time, and the verb must agree with it. Russian verbs cannot be left tense-neutral: they always carry a tense form. Look for the time word in the sentence — вчера, сейчас, завтра — and let it choose the verb.

2. Как вежливо обратиться к незнакомому человеку на улице?

   Listen
   • Извините, пожалуйста…correct
   • Эй, послушай!your answerThis is a rude form of address. «Эй» and «ты» to a stranger sound impolite in Russian.
   • Друг, иди сюдаyour answer«Друг» to a stranger sounds over-familiar, and «иди» is a command in the «ты» form. Strangers are addressed with «вы».

   A stranger is addressed with «вы» and the request opens with an apology: «Извините», «Простите», «Будьте добры». This is not mere politeness — without such an opening the request sounds like a demand. The «ты» / «вы» distinction is strict in Russian, and using «ты» to a stranger is read as rudeness rather than friendliness.

3. В каком году произошло крещение Руси?

   Listen
   • 1380your answer1380 is the Battle of Kulikovo — almost four hundred years after the Christianisation.
   • 988correct
   • 1147your answer1147 is the first mention of Moscow in the chronicles; it has nothing to do with the Christianisation.

   The Christianisation of Rus took place in 988, under Prince Vladimir. The Christian history of the country begins with this event, which is why the date comes up often. The easiest anchor: the end of the 10th century, more than a hundred years before Moscow is first mentioned.

Read by a speech synthesiser

Correct: of 3

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Speaking: say your answer out loud

The oral part cannot be learned by reading. Until you have said an answer out loud, you do not know whether you are meeting the task — and in the exam you find that out once, with consequences.

Here you can record your answer by voice. The machine transcribes what it heard and shows which points of the task you covered. This is the trainer's breakdown, not an examiner's score: the oral mark is given by a live person, and we do not pretend otherwise.

• How speaking works — the tasks, the pass marks and what is checked.
• Speaking for the temporary residence permit — 3 tasks, pass mark 3 out of 5.
• Speaking for the residence permit — 4 tasks, 4 out of 6.
• Speaking for citizenship — 5 tasks, 9 out of 10.

Speaking is the only section with a mandatory pass mark of its own: the overall total does not replace it. The patent level has no oral part.

Free and without sign-up, like everything else here.

How this differs from other sites

Every point can be checked on this page itself.

• Speaking out loud, with your voice recorded. You answer into the microphone, the machine transcribes what you said and shows which points of the task you covered. On 20 September 2026 we checked eleven preparation sites: not one of them lets you record an answer by voice.
• Every wrong option says why that option is wrong. Not "the correct answer is the second one", but a breakdown of your mistake. None of the competitors we checked does this.
• Mistakes explained in your own language — Uzbek, Tajik, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
• All 406 tasks are voiced. If reading Russian is hard, you can listen to the task and the options instead.
• Numbers from the official Rosobrnadzor specifications. We copied the section pass marks out of the documents; the "60 % in every module" that circulates on other sites appears in no document.
• Free and without sign-up. No subscriptions, no auto-renewals, no advertising. Today everything is free, speaking included.
• The site is light. A page opens on a cheap phone and a slow connection: it weighs 74 kilobytes, against 5.3 megabytes on the heaviest competitor.

Vacancies open to foreign citizens

On the state portal Rabota v Rossii some vacancies are marked by the employer: this position is open to a foreign citizen. We pick those out and show them by city — free, no sign-up, no agencies.

• Уборщик

  from 46 000 ₽ per month

  Артем No experience needed Part time

  ООО «Чудодей Владивосток» Tax ID 2536189827

  Кирова улица, 11

  Open

• Врач функциональной диагностики

  60 000–80 000 ₽ per month

  Асбест Housing: flat No experience needed

  Государственное автономное учреждение здравоохранения свердловской области «Городская Больница Город Асбест» Tax ID 6683005789

  Больничный Городок улица, 7

  Open

• Управляющий предприятия

  50 000–55 000 ₽ per month

  Барнаул

  ИП Гусев Михаил Александрович Tax ID 220805150303

  Малахова улица, 62

  Open

• Грузчик

  50 000–80 000 ₽ per month

  Белгород No experience needed Shift work

  ООО «Белгородский Завод Полимерных Контейнеров» Tax ID 3123078732

  Рабочая улица, 14

  Open

More vacancies — 4506

Main source of vacancies: “Work in Russia” portal, data as of 06.10.2026. The employer marked the position as open to a foreign national.

We do not place anyone in a job, take no money and are not an agency. You apply on the source website.

• All vacancies

Frequently asked questions

Composition and scores verified on 8 September 2026 against Rosobrnadzor's sample papers and specifications. Tasks are updated at least monthly; the structure of the exam is not. This page was machine-translated and has not yet been edited by a native speaker. Check figures and legal wording against the Russian version.