It is located in south-eastern Europe and is bordered by Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Moldova.Area Romania 237500 km.2.All Romania, with the exception of the Black Sea coast, is the Danube basin.2850 km Danube passes through nine countries and complete their journey delta in Romania.South of Delta embraces Black Sea coast, south-west, the Danube Plain.

Climate

The climate is continental, temperate.For marine resorts of Romania in the spring, summer and autumn are warm mild weather with a long swimming season from May to October.Light breeze does not overheat even on a hot day.

People

The population of Romania is 22.8 millionpeople.Ethnic composition : 89.4% of Romanians, Hungarians 7.1%, 1.8%, Gypsies, Germans 0.5%, 0.3% Ukrainian, 0.2% - Russian, 0.1% - Turk.

Time

Behind from Moscow at 1:00.

Language

The official language is Romanian.The schools teach English and French.

Religion

70% of the population are Romanian Orthodox, Protestant, 6%, 6% and 3% Catholic, Greek Orthodox.

Money

The currency is the Romanian lei.There are coins of 1, 3, 5, 10,20, 50 and 100 lei banknotes and 100, 200, 500, 1000, 5000, 10000 lei.

A large number of exchange bureaux (casa de schimb) offer a better rate than the official rate at banks, airports, fuel stations and hotels.Keep receipts on the exchange, because they may be needed to prove that the money was legitimately exchanged with the opposite lei exchange for hard currency before leaving Romania.

Mail and phone

A minute conversation with Moscow costs around $ 05, -0.7.
The communication system is archaic, but has recently become the subject of intense modernization.Most outdoor phones in the capital of Romania and in resort areas used for connecting phone card (sold in the newspaper and tobacco shops, as well as railway stations and the offices of contact) and can communicate anywhere in the world.The province is still to be found "love" phones, but their number is rapidly decreasing.Many provincial communities have no telephone communication with the outside world.
The border easiest call of specialized stalls, which almost every liaison office, a hotel (the prices of 10-20% more expensive than a liaison office) or specialized phones (these usually have offices in banks and the supermarket in the capital and resort areas).

Codes major cities : Bucharest-1, 30-Suceava, Botosani-31, X-32, Roman, 33, Bacau, Moyneshti-34-36 Galati, Tulcea, 40, Constanta, Mangalia, Neptun, Olimp-41, Feteshti-43, commissioned in Ploiesti, 44, Tyrgovishte-45, Pitesti, Stefaneshti-48 Slatina-49-51 Craiova, Tirgu Jiu-53, Deva, Hunedoara-54-55 Reshitsa, Lugoj, Timisoara, 56, Arad, Lipow, Sebish-57, Alba-58, H-59, 61-Mare, Oradea, Cluj-Napoca, ti-64, Sighisoara, 65-Targu Mures, Brasov, Fagaras-68 Sibiu-69.International code-40.

Mobile communications uses GSM-900/1800 standard.Operators Cosmorom, Orange and Connex in recent years have almost full coverage of the country, except the mountains, where cellular communication is still elusive.
Background telephone network-931.
International negotiations - 971.
Intercity negotiations - 991.
Information for tourists - 951.
Railway background (from 05.00 to 23.00), 952 (a reference to lost luggage, ext. 5764) (9521) 018-60-09 or 223-08-80 (52).
The exact time - 958.
Call a taxi-953.
Ambulance - 961.
Hospital emergency-962.
Police-955.
Fire - 981 support.
Romanian Automobile Club ACR-9271

Medical care

The country is difficult for epidemiological situation.From time to time recorded outbreak of anthrax in the Danube Delta, viral meningitis in the north and east, never typhoid, hepatitis and rabies in rural areas.Health insurance is compulsory international model.
Health care in Romania is skimpy, there are serious shortages of basic medicines and trained personnel.

Shopping, gifts, souvenirs

Plum infusion, embroidered blouses and crafts, unique rumyskie drugs that slowed ageing, and cosmetics made from them.Some shops close for the day at siestu.

Major holidays

1, January 2 (New Year)
March-April (Easter Monday)
Dec. 1 (National Day of unity)
25, Dec. 26 (Christmas Day).
In summer the coast is a large number of festivals.One of the most prominent is the August festival in Tulcea.Autumn in Transylvania numerous music festivals : Cibinium in Sibiu (September), Cerbu de Aur in Brasov (September), "Autumn Music" - in Cluj-Napoca (October).

Kitchen

His kitchen is original.Ages evolve under the influence of its traditions, and drew a cuisines of the neighbouring map and Slavic peoples, it is seen as a simple and very delicious.The kitchen is all vegetables and corn.The Teke domestic product is a "Hominy" hot-lining of corn meal porridge.Her file all kinds of additives, hormones, make it puddings and snacks.The traditional place on the table are cakes "melay.
Vegetable dishes myriad.The original special kapustnyh from beet and grape leaf "sarmale (some species produce up to three days!) , Stuffed with meat, cheese and rice, tomatoes, stuffed with mushrooms, home of noodle dishes, vegetables and milk products "yofka" Stuffed onions, cut from green onions, beans with smoked bacon, puree beans and assorted fresh greens.Extensive use of the snacks of fresh fruit in the form of complex salads, in combination with eggs, cheeses and sour cream.

National dishes are also dozens of traditional thick soup "Chorbe", which is acidified KUPI, brine, cheese or other dairy products, soup with rosemary, belokochannoy cabbage soup with sour cream, potatoes, a kind of a sour soup date, wheat and corn meal, "Barsh, soup with vegetables and meat balls, scars soup, tomato soup with garlic, etc.
Meat is used in all forms and in all sorts of combinations with other ingredients.Good shpigovannaya garlic lamb chop is a tail "tokitura, smoked in the smoke goat meat grilled on charcoal sausages" patricheni, omelets with cheese, ham and mushroom, chicken stewed in chugunke, oltyanskaya "chulama" a chicken in Hominy, layers of cabbage stew meat, hot meat and vegetables "tokane" kebab from liver "frigeruy" Ragout of veal "chulama", a dish of lamb tail "biographical" grilled on charcoal kotletki with mustard "mititey, beef with red pepper and flour soup" paprikash de Wintel "Moldovan holodets of poultry and pork, fried fish and marinovanaya with various garnishes, fish" DVDs with vegetables, lamb on a spit, kebab, pizza, Musuka, etc.

Traditionally, a large number of foods from test-Paschal "kozonaki" kalachi of dough layered with a multitude assembles "ynvyrtite, flat cakes with meat" parzhoale "transilvanskie dumplings, dumplings, pies with cheese" bryuy "sweet sport" pascha, pancakes, "aliventsi, platsyndy" with squash, cream, apples or potatoes, with sour tvorozhniki "papanaschi" Dozens of cheese and puddings.
For dessert cake with the typical semi-filling, with a big variety of fruits, Brioche, Baklava, saraliya, Khlopok and thousands of jam.

Careful attention should be given to the Romanian wine.The best varieties are Bebyaska, Busuyoka, Zgihara, Feteasca, Grasa-de-Kotnar, Murfatlar, Odobesht, Kotesht, Kadarke, Punch, Nikoresht, Furmint, Oporto, Sandzhovesk, Kryatse, Mazharke, Tyrnave, Temyyoase, Shtefenesht, Dragoshan, Sigarchi, Sadova-Korabiya, Ardzhesh and Dyalu-Mare.Also excellent wines made here from imported grapes - Riesling, Rulander, Merlot, Aligote, Traminer, Rkatsiteli, Sauvignon, Cabernet, Pinot, Muscat and Shardone.
Superb as famous and local brandy "vinars", which are considered the best brand marks Vasconi, Petroasa, Jidvei, Murfatlar and Dorobants.Also in Romania make good strong drinks, including traditional Romanian plum moonshine "tsuyka (55-60" C ") and the Hungarian" palinku. "Local beer is also admirable reputation.Top class is "Ursus."

Transport

Public transport in large and medium-sized cities proper, but often crowded (typically works from 5 to 22).Tickets are sold in special tobacco shops or after landing composted.Metropolitan is in Bucharest (payment coins).Taxis with the checkers at the side, the payment on the counter.Private taxi without a counter, with the letters "R" or "RO" on the roof, a more expensive but more accessible (the price dogovarivaytes advance).The fare for a ride from the airport to Bucharest (about 12 km) are $ 12-15.

Voltage

Voltage 220 V, 50 Hz

Tipping

The restaurant, even though the service is included in the expense-account slightly rounded.

Visa

To travel to Romania Russian citizens need a visa.
Documents required to obtain a visa :
- passport;
blank-zayavlenie-filled;
1 photo 3õ4 see
The cost of a one-time visa-25 dollars, a multi-$ 60, tourist or transit-$ 15.
When crossing the border, Customs may require a money to stay in the country at the rate of $ 30 a day, but not less than $ 300 for the whole trip.

Customs regulations

Officially, the country allowed to import foreign exchange within 50,000 dollars, but the amount of over 1000 require declaring at the entrance.Allowed to export 5,000 lei in the Romanian currency, and the only bank in 1000 and less than lei.Gifts worth up to $ 100 could be imported duty free.Besposhlino can bring : 4 million.wine, 1 litre.good spirits, 200 cigarettes, 200 grams.coffee and cocoa (for personal use).

The embassy of Russia

The embassy of the Russian Federation in Romania :
Bucuresti, Sos.Kiseleff, 6
Telephone : (8-10-40-1) 222-3168, 222-3459, 222-3170
Fax : (8-10-40-1) 222-9450
E-mail : rab@dial.roknet.ro

Tips

Due to high inflation, prices in the country are changing very quickly, although recently there has been some stabilization in that regard.In tourist areas, the prices in shops and markets often stated and lei and the euro.

The country belongs to the list of the most corrupt countries in the world.Virtually no "sensitive issues" could not be resolved without bribes officer.The Bucharest more secure than most other European capitals.Pilfering and fraud while and are fairly widespread, but generally thrive away from the main attractions and eye Police, which has a very wide powers.The streets are infrequent, but a carefully and thoroughly.In this case, you must always have a copy of a passport or driver's license.In particular cruelty prosecuted drug-even foreigner to be charged with drug-related offences for up to 7 years.Often petty theft, fraud currency and credit-card fraudsters sometimes dress in uniforms of police or taxi driver.

Smoking is banned in public transport, virtually every film and theatre.Taking pictures of military installations, bridges and ports prohibited.In some places (mostly majority palaces and some churches) for authorization to take photographs will have to pay about two thousandLeu.

Tap water is usually chlorinated and relatively safe, but can cause stomach upset.Use only bottled water or prokipyachenuyu.Romania is currently experiencing water shortages, and in some areas (especially around Bucharest and other cities) water mains served only a few hours a day.In the mountains it is not practicable.Drink water from mountain sources safely.
Milk and dairy products widely pasterizuyutsya and deemed safe for consumption.Local meat, poultry, Seafood, fruit and vegetables are considered relatively safe for consumption, but the products from the market require mandatory treatment.
The natural hazards include earthquakes, most often occur in the south and southwest, as well as landslides.

Classification of Romanian wines to European standards.Âèíà ïîäðàçäåëÿþòñÿ íà "õîäîâûå", êîòîðûå â ñâîþ î÷åðåäü ïîäðàçäåëÿþòñÿ íà ñòîëîâûå (VM) è êà÷åñòâåííûå ñòîëîâûå (VMS), è "êà÷åñòâåííûå", ïîäðàçäåëÿåìûå íà âèíà âûñøåãî êà÷åñòâà (VS) è êà÷åñòâåííûå âèíà ñ êîíòðîëèðóåìûì íàçâàíèåì ðåãèîíà (VDOC).In turn, wine class VDOC fall into wine with the name of a controlled region (DOC), fault-controlled region as well as to the quality (DOCC), the total wine crop maturity (CMD), late harvest wines (ST), or selected crops (CS), noble wines (CIB), late harvest wines (CSB) and noble wine harvest maturity (CMI).The classification is determined by price and product, but in general, local wine is inexpensive.

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