According to the Border Service of the Federal Security Service of Russia, in 2020, 9.6 million foreign citizens visited Russia, while only 336 thousand people entered the country for tourism purposes.
Thus, the total number of visitors in a pandemic year decreased by 67.5%. In addition, the number of tourists decreased by 93%.
In 2020, 3.63 million people from Ukraine were the most frequent visitors to Russia. In addition, the top five countries also included Kazakhstan - 1.4 million people, Uzbekistan - 720 thousand people, Tajikistan - 401.8 thousand people and Kyrgyzstan - 299.6 thousand people.
The top ten countries whose citizens visited Russia in 2020 included Azerbaijan, Armenia, Finland, Belarus and China.
The tourist flow came mainly from China.
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