8 Best Russia Proxies (2026)

Russia is one of the hardest countries to buy proxies for in 2026. Since 2022, several of the largest proxy providers have removed Russian locations or stopped serving customers in Russia, and inside the country the internet has become steadily more restricted: Roskomnadzor blocks sites and VPN protocols with deep packet inspection, regional mobile internet shutdowns are routine, and major Russian platforms have been told to block visitors who look like they are using a VPN.

Yet there are still plenty of legitimate reasons to need a Russian IP address. Yandex, not Google, is the search engine that matters in Russia, and its results depend on the region you search from. Ozon, Wildberries and Avito show prices, stock and listings by region. Ad networks, app stores and payment pages behave differently for Russian visitors. Researchers, brand-protection teams and journalists outside Russia need to see what Russian users see. We checked which providers still sell Russian IPs in October 2026, what they offer in Russia and on what terms, and picked the 8 that cover the most needs.

Quick picks

• Best overall: ProxyEmpire — 81 Russian regions, 600 locations and mobile carrier targeting on MTS, MegaFon and T2.
• Best for regional and ISP targeting: SOAX — 2,074,320 Russian residential and mobile IPs, with 50 regions, 50 cities and 50 Russian ISPs listed.
• Best for a free trial: Decodo — 819,556 Russian residential IPs, a free trial and a 14-day money-back policy (not available to customers from Russia).
• Best budget option: DataImpulse — $1/GB Russian residential traffic that never expires, with unusually transparent Russian IP counts.
• Best for dedicated Russian IPs: Proxy-Seller — dedicated Russian IPv4 from $0.90 per IP for a week, with unlimited bandwidth.
• Best for cheap static proxies: Webshare — a free plan and shared proxies from about $0.03 per IP.

Who still sells Russian IPs?

This is the first thing to check, because the answer changed after 2022 and keeps changing. Here is what we found on providers' own sites in October 2026:

Comparison table

Russian IP counts are each provider's own claim from its Russia page in October 2026. Providers count differently — unique IPs over 30 days, IPs online right now, or several proxy types combined — so the numbers aren't directly comparable. Prices change often; check the provider's pricing page before you buy.

The Russian proxy landscape

Russia's internet is unusual in ways that directly affect which proxies work and for how long.

A handful of large operators. Most Russian home broadband comes from Rostelecom (the state-controlled incumbent, AS12389), ER-Telecom under the Dom.ru brand (AS9049), MTS (AS8359) and Beeline (VimpelCom, AS3216), plus hundreds of regional networks such as Ufanet, Tattelecom, Novotelecom and Intersvyaz. Mobile service is dominated by MTS, MegaFon (AS31133), Beeline and T2 (formerly Tele2), with MVNOs such as Yota and SberMobile on top. A residential or mobile Russian IP that Russian sites trust will almost always sit in one of these networks.

Censorship infrastructure on every network. Under the 2019 "sovereign internet" law, every Russian ISP carries Roskomnadzor's deep packet inspection equipment (TSPU). It is used to block sites, throttle services and — since 2023–2024 — detect and block VPN protocols such as OpenVPN, WireGuard and Shadowsocks. In March and June 2025, Russian ISPs also throttled traffic to services behind Cloudflare. For a proxy user outside Russia, this matters because your traffic exits on a Russian network: some foreign sites may be slow or unreachable through a Russian IP, and traffic patterns that look like a tunnel can be disrupted.

Mobile internet shutdowns and whitelists. Since May 2025, Russian authorities have repeatedly shut down mobile internet in regions across the country, including central Moscow for nearly three weeks in March 2026. During shutdowns, some regions run a "whitelist" that allows only approved services — initially 57 sites, including Yandex, VK, Gosuslugi, Ozon, Wildberries and Avito. If you use Russian mobile proxies, expect individual exit devices to drop offline or lose access to non-whitelisted sites without warning.

Russian platforms now block VPN-like traffic. In 2026, Russia's Ministry of Digital Development told major platforms — including Yandex, VK, Sber, Ozon, Wildberries, Avito, Lamoda, HeadHunter and CIAN — to block users detected using VPNs by April 15. According to Mediazona, the guidance tells them to compare a visitor's IP against databases of Russian and blacklisted addresses, and to block access when the IP's location doesn't match Russia, matches a blacklisted address, or changes frequently. That makes a clean, stable Russian residential or mobile IP far more important than it was a year ago, and makes per-request rotation a liability on these sites.

Foreign IPs are often blocked anyway. Many Russian government portals, banks and DDoS-protected sites restrict or challenge visitors from abroad. If you are collecting Russian data from outside Russia, a datacenter IP in Frankfurt or Helsinki is rarely enough.

1. ProxyEmpire — Best overall

ProxyEmpire, operated from Bulgaria, has the most Russia-specific coverage of any provider we checked. Its Russia page claims 81 Russian regions and 600 locations, from Moscow and St Petersburg to Kazan, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Kaliningrad, Irkutsk and Vladivostok. It also names the Russian networks behind its pool: mobile carriers MTS, MegaFon and T2 (plus MVNOs such as T-Mobile, SberMobile, Letai and Motiv, and Beeline and Yota), and broadband providers including Rostelecom, Dom.ru (ER-Telecom), MGTS in Moscow, TransTeleCom, Ufanet, Tattelecom, Novotelecom and Intersvyaz.

The Russian product range covers rotating residential, rotating mobile, rotating datacenter and an unlimited-bandwidth residential plan. Rotating residential costs $3.50/GB pay-as-you-go; monthly plans run from $20 for 7 GB to $1,500 for 1 TB ($1.50/GB), with custom contracts from $0.75/GB at 5 TB or more, and unused traffic rolls over. Rotating mobile starts from $2/GB at volume and rotating datacenter from $0.35/GB. The unlimited residential plan, which ProxyEmpire says draws on 8,900+ daily Russian IPs, starts at $1,500 a month or $200 for a one-day pass. Static residential (ISP) proxies aren't offered in Russia.

A $1.97 trial gives you 150 MB to test Russian residential and mobile IPs, which is a cheap way to check that carrier targeting and Russian sites work for you before committing. The terms of service say all sales are final.

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2. SOAX — Best for regional and ISP targeting

SOAX, a UK-registered company (SOAX LTD), claims 2,074,320 Russian residential and mobile IPs, the largest Russia-specific figure among providers that still list Russia. Its Russia page lists 50 regions (from Tatarstan and Khanty-Mansia to Krasnoyarsk Krai and Chechnya), 50 cities (such as Volgograd, Krasnoyarsk, Lipetsk, Izhevsk and Cheboksary) and 50 Russian ISPs and carriers you can target, including Rostelecom, MTS, MegaFon, Beeline, Tele2 Russia, Yota, Dom.ru / ER-Telecom, Moscow City Telephone Network (MGTS), TransTeleCom, Ufanet and many regional networks.

That ISP list is the main reason to choose SOAX for Russia: you can pin traffic to a specific operator, which helps when a Russian site trusts one network more than another or when you need to reproduce what a particular carrier's customers see. Residential and mobile traffic share one pool and one price. Note that the datacenter proxies mentioned on its Russia page are US datacenter IPs, not Russian ones.

SOAX doesn't publish which of its geo tiers Russia falls into. On Tier 1, rates are $5/GB in the no-fee Sandbox, $3/GB on the $200 Builder plan, $2.20/GB on Team, $1.50/GB on the $1,500 Scale plan and from $0.85/GB on Enterprise; Tier 2 and Tier 3 countries cost less, down to $0.35/GB. The Russia page advertised a 3-day, 400 MB trial for $1.99 in October 2026. SOAX's terms require you to confirm that you aren't located in a country under comprehensive sanctions or on a sanctions list, and it reserves the right to refuse service where it sees a sanctions or compliance risk.

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3. Decodo — Best for a free trial

Decodo (formerly Smartproxy), a Lithuanian provider, still sells Russian residential IPs: its Russia page claims 819,556 Russian residential IPs and lists Moscow as the only targetable Russian city. Mobile, ISP and datacenter proxies aren't offered with Russian IPs. If you need country-level or Moscow traffic from outside Russia, it is a well-documented, easy-to-test option.

The important limitation is on the customer side. Decodo says it has suspended its services for customers originating from Russia and Belarus since March 2, 2022, with no option to buy extra traffic. So Decodo is an option for teams outside Russia that need Russian IPs, not for buyers in Russia.

Russian traffic uses Decodo's standard residential pricing: $4/GB pay-as-you-go, monthly plans from $3.75/GB (3 GB) to $2.75/GB (100 GB), and $2/GB at 1 TB. New users get a 3-day trial with 100 MB, and first purchases come with a 14-day money-back guarantee if you haven't used the free trial or more than 20% of your traffic.

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4. DataImpulse — Best budget option

DataImpulse is the cheapest way to get Russian residential traffic on this list, and it is unusually transparent about its Russian pool. Its Russia page reports 598,068 unique Russian IPs in the last 30 days, 88,653 in the last 24 hours and a real-time active pool of 10,995 Russian IPs. That last figure is the one to keep in mind: it's roughly how many Russian exits are online at any moment, which is plenty for monitoring jobs but not for very high-concurrency crawling of a single site.

Pricing is simple: $5 for 5 GB as a new-user starter, $1/GB on standard plans, $0.80/GB at 1 TB, and traffic never expires. Country targeting is included, but state, city, ZIP and ASN targeting cost extra, so pinning traffic to Moscow or to a specific operator raises the effective price. DataImpulse supports HTTP(S) and SOCKS5, rotating and sticky sessions (30 to 120 minutes), and states that it doesn't offer static residential IPs in Russia or anywhere else.

DataImpulse's policies name a UAE entity, and its company background is less documented than some rivals'. For price checks on Ozon or Wildberries where a Russian IP is enough, it is very cost-effective.

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5. Proxy-Seller — Best for dedicated Russian IPs

Proxy-Seller, a Cyprus-registered provider selling proxies since 2014, is the simplest way to rent a small number of dedicated Russian IPs. Its Russia page sells IPv4 and IPv6 datacenter proxies, ISP proxies, mobile proxies and residential traffic, and says its Russian IPv4 inventory spans 400 networks and 800 subnets — useful if you want IPs from different ranges so that one block doesn't take out all your accounts.

Dedicated IPv4 pricing started at $0.90 for a single Russian IP on a one-week term in October 2026, with discounts on longer terms and larger packages (up to 500 IPs in the calculator). IPv4 proxies include HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, unlimited bandwidth and speeds of up to 1 Gbps. If an IP doesn't suit you, Proxy-Seller says it will replace it or refund within 24 hours of issuing the credentials.

Proxy-Seller doesn't publish which Russian cities its IPv4 ranges are in or which carriers its mobile proxies use, so ask support if location matters. And remember that datacenter IPs are exactly what Russian platforms' new VPN checks look for; use them for lightly protected sites, monitoring and tools, not for Yandex accounts or marketplaces.

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6. Webshare — Best for cheap static proxies

Webshare, a US company based in California, lists 894,981 IPs on its Russia page and sells rotating residential and static proxies there. Its biggest draw is cost and ease of testing: a free plan with 10 proxies and no credit card, and paid static proxy plans from $2.99 a month for 100 proxies (about $0.03 per proxy), falling to about $0.018 per proxy at 60,000 or more.

The Russia page doesn't say how its 894,981 figure splits between residential and static IPs, or whether every static proxy you can select is physically located in Russia — check the location filter in the dashboard before you buy a large static plan. Rotating residential supports country, state, city, ZIP and ASN targeting. Webshare's own figures for small residential purchases are inconsistent: its Russia page quotes $7 a month for 1 GB, while its main pricing works out at $3.50/GB on the 1 GB plan, falling to $1.40/GB at 3 TB.

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7. Novada — Best for proxy type variety

Novada, operated by Novada Labs GmbH in Frankfurt, lists 2,133,069 Russian IPs on its Russia page and sells four proxy types there: rotating residential, rotating ISP, static ISP and rotating datacenter. That makes it one of the few providers offering static ISP proxies with Russian IPs, which suits long-lived accounts better than rotating residential traffic.

Pricing is where Novada is hard to pin down. Its Russia page shows residential from $3.60/GB, rotating ISP from $3.96/GB, rotating datacenter from $0.97/GB and static ISP from $4.50 per IP. Those figures are well above its main pricing pages, where residential falls from $2/GB at 25 GB to $1.30/GB at 1 TB (with a $1/GB new-user starter) and static ISP starts at $1.18 per IP at volume. Ask Novada which rate applies to Russian traffic before you commit. Residential traffic expires after 30 days and only HTTP(S) is supported.

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8. Geonode — Best for high-volume budget traffic

Geonode, based in Singapore, sells Russian residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile proxies, and its Russia page names six cities — Moscow, St Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Voronezh, Tomsk and Novosibirsk — plus MTS and MegaFon for mobile. Its residential subscriptions are the cheapest at scale on this list: $0.79/GB on the 10 GB plan, falling to $0.27/GB at 100 TB, with unused traffic rolling over.

Its Russian numbers are the least consistent we found. The same page said 84,210 Russian IPs were available now, described the pool as over 500,000 residential IPs across dozens of cities, and its page description cited 27,596 residential IPs across 6 cities. Its global residential pool is also small (7.5M+), and sticky sessions last up to 30 minutes. Geonode is a reasonable choice for large-volume, country-level Russian traffic where price matters most; for regional targeting or account work, the providers above are stronger.

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Other providers we considered

• Bright Data — the largest residential network overall, but Russia no longer appears in its locations list (Belarus still does), so we couldn't confirm it sells Russian IPs.
• Oxylabs — its Russia location page now redirects to its general location directory and Russia isn't listed there, although its developer documentation still shows a Russian residential entry point. Ask Oxylabs sales directly if you're an existing customer.
• IPRoyal and Infatica — Russia isn't in either provider's location list in October 2026.
• Floppydata — has a Russia page covering residential, mobile, datacenter and static proxies at its usual prices ($1/GB residential), but publishes no Russian IP counts, cities or carriers, and offers no trial.
• NodeMaven — has a Russia location page, but it publishes no Russian IP counts, cities or carriers that we could confirm.
• NetNut — not recommended. On July 2, 2026, the FBI seized NetNut's domains in a coordinated action with Google and industry partners against the "Popa" botnet, which they said supplied its residential network.

Which proxy type do you need for Russia?

Russian use cases: practical tips

Yandex SEO tracking. Yandex localises results by region much more aggressively than Google does in most countries. Use residential IPs in the region you care about, and also set the region explicitly with Yandex's lr parameter (for example, lr=213 for Moscow or lr=2 for St Petersburg) so the result doesn't depend on IP geolocation alone. Expect CAPTCHAs ("SmartCaptcha") if you query too fast from one IP. For large keyword sets, a SERP API that supports Yandex may be cheaper than running your own browsers.

Ozon, Wildberries and Avito. Prices, delivery times and stock on Ozon and Wildberries depend on your delivery region or pickup point, and Avito listings are organised by city. A Russian IP is necessary but not sufficient: set the region or city in the site itself and keep it in the session cookie. Since these platforms were told in 2026 to block IPs that change frequently, use sticky sessions of 10–30 minutes per browsing "visit" rather than rotating on every request.

VK and Yandex accounts. Russian accounts are tied to Russian phone numbers, and transferring SIM cards or accounts to other people has been an administrative offence in Russia since September 1, 2025 (with exceptions for short-term personal use). For accounts you legitimately operate, use one static ISP or dedicated mobile IP per account and don't switch between countries.

Ad verification and app testing. Russian ad campaigns are commonly targeted by region and mobile operator. Mobile proxies with carrier targeting (ProxyEmpire, SOAX) let you check what an MTS or MegaFon subscriber in a specific region sees. Be aware that regional mobile shutdowns and whitelists can make mobile exits unreliable on some days.

Research and journalism. If you study Russian media or platforms from abroad, residential IPs show you what Russian users see, including which foreign sites are blocked or throttled. Remember that your traffic passes through Russian networks with DPI equipment, so never log in to accounts or send sensitive data through a Russian exit IP.

How to test a Russian proxy

1. Check geolocation in several databases. Russian mobile IPs often geolocate to Moscow or to a carrier's regional hub rather than the user's real city. Compare two or three IP lookup services before relying on city targeting.
2. Check the ASN. A residential Russian IP should belong to a consumer operator such as Rostelecom (AS12389), ER-Telecom / Dom.ru (AS9049), MTS (AS8359), Beeline (AS3216) or MegaFon (AS31133), or to a recognisable regional ISP. A hosting or cloud ASN means you've been given a datacenter exit, whatever the product page says.
3. Match your browser to Russia. Set Accept-Language to ru-RU, the browser locale to Russian and the time zone to Europe/Moscow (or the region's own zone — Russia spans 11 time zones, from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka). A Russian IP with a US time zone is an obvious mismatch.
4. Check for leaks. Test for WebRTC and DNS leaks so your real IP doesn't appear alongside the Russian one — exactly the kind of mismatch Russian platforms now look for.
5. Test the sites you actually need. Open Yandex, Ozon, Wildberries and Avito through the proxy and confirm they load without a block page or endless CAPTCHA. A proxy that passes an IP checker can still fail on a marketplace.
6. Measure latency and stability. Russian exits can be slow from outside Russia, and international routes may be throttled. Compare time-to-first-byte and connection drops across providers during their trials, at different times of day.

Is it legal to use proxies in Russia?

Using a proxy is not, in itself, an offence in Russia, but the legal environment is restrictive and changing quickly. The main points as of October 2026:

• Anonymisers and VPNs. Federal Law No. 276-FZ (in force since November 1, 2017) requires VPN and anonymiser services to block sites on Roskomnadzor's register, and services that don't comply can be blocked. Since March 1, 2024, promoting ways to bypass blocking and advertising VPNs has been banned.
• Fines from September 2025. Federal Law No. 281-FZ of July 31, 2025 added Article 13.53 to the Code of Administrative Offences, fining people 3,000–5,000 rubles for knowingly searching for materials on the official list of extremist materials, including via a VPN. The same package introduced fines for advertising VPNs (50,000–80,000 rubles for individuals, up to 500,000 rubles for companies) and made VPN use an aggravating circumstance for crimes. Officials said the use of a VPN on its own is not an offence.
• Personal data. Russia's personal data law (152-FZ, with localisation rules added by 242-FZ) requires Russian citizens' personal data to be collected and stored in databases located in Russia. Amendments in force since July 1, 2025 tightened those rules further. If you collect personal data about Russian users, take local advice.
• Sanctions outside Russia. US, EU and UK sanctions restrict dealings with listed Russian persons and certain services and payments involving Russia. Russian-issued Visa and Mastercard cards haven't worked abroad since both networks suspended Russian operations in 2022, and many providers refuse Russian payment methods or customers. Check both the provider's terms and your own obligations.

Choose a provider that explains how it sources IPs with consent and that publishes a legal entity, and avoid networks with no clear operator. This section is general information, not legal advice.

Related guides

Russia is a special case: the right provider depends as much on its policies as on its pool. For broader comparisons by proxy type, see our guides to the best residential proxy providers, best mobile proxy providers, best ISP proxy providers and best datacenter proxy providers. For Central and Eastern European targets from an EU base, our guide to the best German proxies may help. You can also browse every provider we track in the proxy provider directory, or start with the basics in what is a proxy?.