You can dial most cities in Russia directly using either your home or office phone, or special telephone booths, often located in post offices, called "Mezhdugorodniy", or any of the private pay phones, see PAY PHONES.
To make an intercity call, dial "8", wait for a long tone, then dial city code and number. To order a call through operator, dial 077. Codes of major cities are listed below. For more information on codes, call 070.

Chekhov 272 Dmitrov 222 Dubna (Moscow region) 221 Egorevsk 240 Elektrostal 257 Golitsyno 233 Istra 231 Kashira 269 Klin 224 Kolomna 261 Lotoshino 228 Lukhovitsy 263 Mozhaysk 238 Naro-Fominsk 234 Noginsk 251 Orekhovo-Zuevo 241 Ozery 270

Pavlovskiy Posad 243 Podolsk 275 Pushkino 253 Ramenskoe 246 Ruza 227 Serebryanye Prudy 267 Sergiev Posad 254 Shakhovskaya 231 Shatura 245 Shchelkovo 256 Stupino 264 Taldom 220 Volokolamsk 236 Voskresensk 244 Zaraysk 266 Zhukovskiy 248 Zvenigorod 232

St. Petersburg 812 Arkhangelsk 818 Bryansk 0832**,08322 Cheboksary 8352 Chelyabinsk 3512 Cherepovets 820 Chita 30222 Ekaterinburg 3432 Groznyy 8712 Irkutsk 3952 Ivanovo 0932**,09322 Ivano-Frankovsk 0340**,03400 Izhevsk 3412 Kaliningrad 0112 Kazan 8432 Khabarovsk 81732 Kirov 833 Krasnodar 8612 Krasnoyarsk 3912 Kursk 071 Lipetsk 0742 Makhachkala 8720**,08200 Mineralnye Vody 86531 Murmansk 815 Nizhniy Novgorod 8312 Nizhniy Tagil 3435 Novgorod 816 Novokuznetsk 3843 Novosibirsk 3832 Omsk 3812

Orel 0860**,08600 Penza 8412 Perm 3422 Petrozavodsk 814 Pyatigorsk 86533 Rostov-na-Donu 8632 Ryazan 0912 Samara 8462 Saratov 8452 Simbirsk 8422 Smolensk 081 Sochi 8622 Suzdal 09231 Syktyvkar 82122 Tambov 0752 Tomsk 3822 Tula 0872 Tyumen 3452 Tver 08222 Ufa 3472 Vladikavkaz 86722 Vladivostok 4232 Vladimir 09222 Volgograd 8442 Vologda 81722 Vorkuta 82151 Voronezh 0732 Yaroslavl 0852 Yoshkar-Ola 83622**,8362

**First code is used with numbers with 6 numbers; the second code is used with numbers with 5 numbers.
You can dial most cities in Russia directly by using either your home or office phone or from special telephone booth offices, called "Mezhdugorodnyy": dial 8, wait for dial tone, dial city code + number. Special service for calling people in other cities without telephones. It is called the "07" service. You order a call for a specific date and time and length of call; the person called is notified and comes to the "Telephone Post" to talk with you. This is a good way to get in touch with people at their dachas.