Accessing Dollars In Moscow

[Annie Fisher]

Hello, I was in Moscow from Sept. 1999 to Dec. 2001 and I found several
ATM's that gave out dollars there: try the ATM for a bank on Kutuzovskij
Prospekt (take the metro to Kutuzovskaia, where the big Panintern store is
inside the station, go out on the north or east side -- the same side that
that small theatre is on -- and walk five or ten minutes away from the
metro, towards the city center; I forgot which bank it is, unfortunately),
or on Novij Arbat, on the north side opposite the Irish Houses, that huge
western style grocery store (again, I forgot the name of the bank). Many, if
not most, ATM's offer a dollar option; the worst annoyance about them is
that sometimes they are limited to one hundred dollar bill per transaction,
so you have to go through the whole rigmarole for each $100 -- and incur the
ATM fee each time, both at home and, IF that ATM charges fees, on the
Russian side. Not all ATM's do. If you'll be using ATM's as your primary
source of cash, you should have no problem finding ATM's that don't take
fees. I found that, since my home bank only charges 40 cents per ATM
transaction, if I picked ATM's with no transaction fee on the russian side,
it was cheaper to get my dollars from the ATM than to withdraw dollars for
the 1.5, 2, or 3 % fee from a teller in the bank. I never had a problem
relying on ATM's (alhtough you still want a months' worth of cash
or --second best -- travellers' checks stashed somewhere, just to be on the
safe side!).
-Annie


-----Original Message-----
From: Kat Tancock <tancockk at UVIC.CA>
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Date: Thursday, May 17, 2001 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: Accessing Dollars In Moscow


>However, you should be able to get dollars from a bank. I've done that
>(although it was two years ago).
>
>Kat
>
>On Thursday, May 17, 2001, at 01:50  PM, Irina D. Shevelenko wrote:
>
>> No, it's absolutely impossible to get dollars at ATM's in Russia.
>>
>> I.Sh.
>>
>> James E Brown wrote:
>>
>>>         I'll be in Moscow this summer and need to know if it is
>>> possible
>>> to access dollars at banks or ATM machines using either a Visa
>>> credit card or a Mastercard debit card.  I have heard that at one time
>>> it
>>> was possible to access both rubles and dollars at ATM's but I do not
>>> know
>>> if this is still the case.  I will be very grateful for this
>>> information.
>>>
>>> :> James E. Brown
>>> jebrown at hawaii.edu
>>> University of Hawaii
>>>
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