Douglas Cato
University of Sydney, Australia
Ross Chapman
University of Victoria, Canada
Jeewoong Choi
Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
Peter Dahl
University of Washington, USA
Stan Dosso
University of Victoria, Canada
Igor Esipov
State University of Oil and Gas, Russia
Kiseon Kim
Gwang-Ju Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
William Kuperman
University of California, San Diego, USA
Fenghua Li
Institute of Acoustics, P.R. China
Alexander Luchinin
Institute of Applied Physics, Russia
Yuanliang Ma
Northwestern Polytechnic University, P.R. China
Yuri Morgunov
V.I.Il'ichev Pacific Oceanologial Institute, Russia
Jungyul Na
Hanyang University, Korea
Valery Petnikov
General Physics Institute, Russia
Robert Spindel
University of Washington, USA
Wen Xu
Zhejiang University, P.R. China
Renhe Zhang
Institute of Acoustics, P.R. China
The hotels for visiting professors in the FEFU campus are presently considered the main accommodation option for the PRUAC participants. The accommodation in the Vladivostok downtown may be also arranged on request. For those who choose the latter option the coaches will be arranged to get to the morning conference sessions in the campus.
The following accommodation options are available for the PRUAC 2015 participants in the FEFU campus (please indicate which room type You would like to book when submitting Your abstract).
Room type
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Room facilities
price (per night)
Standard single
1 single bed, bath, shower, toilet, desk, TV
1250 RUB (ca. 25 USD)
Standard twin
2 single beds, bath, shower, toilet, desk, TV
2000 RUB (ca. 40 USD)
Suite (bedroom and living room)
1 large double bed, bath, shower, toilet, desk, TV, seating area (sofa and armchairs)
5000 RUB (ca. 100 USD)
RUSSIAN VISA
Please be aware that government regulation requires the visa to enter Russia for almost all foreign visitors. The application rules vary per visa type and also depend on the applicant's country of residence. Also please check that Your medical insurance is valid in Russia (also check that for Your accompanying persons).
The local committee will provide You an official letter of invitation which will greatly simplify the visa application procedure. Please read carefully the following instructions on the Russian visa application
Any person may apply for Russian visa in any Russian Consulate. However this procedure may be not very simple unless the person is invited by some Russian institution.
We strongly suggest You to request the letter of invitation from the Local committee.
To obtain such a letter please fill in the following inquiry form which is available on our website as MS Word (click here to download) or a PDF (click here) file.
You may choose to use the MS WORD file to complete the form using the PC or print the form and do it by hand. In the letter case may we suggest that You use BLOCK letters please.
Please send the completed form to the Local committee by e-mail PRUAC@poi.dvo.ru. We also require a copy of Your passport (a scan, say as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file, color, 300 dpi) which should be also attached to the same e-mail.
We will use Your data to request an official letter of invitation from the Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS). It is expected to be issued some 1-2 months before the conference dates. We will send these letters to the participants by an express delivery service (UPS or DHL).
The foreign participants should apply for a Russian visas in a Russian consulate supporting their applications with the obtained invitation letters.
Provided that the application is supported by the FMS letter, the visa is expected to be issued by the Russian consulate in some 7 working days.
!IMPORTANT: Please be aware that visa application should be submitted to the very Russian Consulate which is specified in the inquiry form. Give a careful thought to the choice of Consulate for Your application when completing the inquiry form!
Russia is a beautiful country! We encourage You to visit also other Russian cities besides Vladivostok. We suggest however to carefully plan Your trip and specify the cities You wish to visit when completing the inquiry form.
VLADIVOSTOK AIRPORT
Vladivostok is connected by regular flights to many major cities in Asia. There are direct flights operated by Aeroflot Russian Airlines to Seoul (Incheon airport, two times a day), Tokyo (weekly), Hong Kong (weekly), Busan and Moscow (two times a day) and by S7 Airlines to Tokyo, Seoul and Moscow.
Japan Airlines also operates direct flights from Vladivostok to Tokyo, and there are also direct flights by Korean Air and Asiana Airlines from Vladivostok to Seoul.
The Vladivostok International airport is located some 35 km from the Vladivostok downtown. The easiest way to get to the downtown is to take an Aeroexpress train (click here to check the timetable). The 2nd class ticket from the Airport to city center costs 200 RUB (approximately 5 USD). Another option is to take a taxi (at a price of 1000 RUB, approximately 25 USD).
The local committee may also arrange pick up of the foreign participants at the airport.
