Under Peter I, internal migration increased and as a result, the state introduced documents that travelers were required to keep so that they could track the movement of people and goods throughout the empire.

[2] The introduction of these documents also had a lot to do with the state's ability to impose proper conscription and head tax measures.

Under the legislation in force for the period of 1906 in Russia in the place of residence, as a general rule, the passport was not required.

In addition, in areas that were subject to the rules on the supervision of industrial establishments, the workers of factories and plants were required to have a passport, and in the place of permanent residence.

A special meeting of the needs of the agricultural industry has been entrusted to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the revision of statutes on residence permits, in the sense of saving for a passport solely value of an identity document.

Elaborated on these grounds in 1905, a new draft statute was a passport to postpone consideration until the convocation of the State Duma.

June 10, 1968 the Central Committee received a joint letter to the leadership of the Foreign Ministry and the KGB signed by Andrey Gromyko and Yuri Andropov to the proposal to allow Soviet Jews to emigrate from the country.

As a result, in the 1970s only about 4,000 people had left, many against their will, for example, such well-known dissidents as Brodsky, Aksenov, Aleshkovsky, Voinovich, Dovlatov, Gorenstein, Galich.

[6] Canada[7] and the United States[5] are also refusing to recognize passports that Russia started issuing in 2019 to Ukrainians in the non-government-controlled parts of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, and the European Union was considering their non-recognition.

[8][better source needed] Authorities in the Russian-occupied city of Kherson in southern Ukraine have handed out Russian passports to local residents during 2022 invasion.

In this message, the issuing state requests that the passport bearer be allowed unhindered passage, travel and necessary assistance.

According to the national statistics these are the numbers of Russian visitors arriving to various countries per annum:[18] According to the federal law and the orders from 2012 and 2014 for the old 5-year laminated and the new 10-year biometric passport, respectively, either document has to be issued within one to four months,[134] [135] [136] depending on circumstances, with the issue time being three months in case of an application being made to a consulate outside of Russia.

However, in practice, some consulates require an appointment to be made prior to the applicant being able to provide documents to apply for the passport, in some cases, appointments can only be available many months or even possibly years into the future, effectively undoing the upper limit for a timely issuance of the travel document.

Additionally, if passports are expired or lost, applications for the new passport are routinely declined to be accepted when abroad, prior to the verification of citizenship,[citation needed] for which the consuls require a separate application to be made,[citation needed] either in person or notarised by a notary public, with the processing times for verification itself often exceeding many months.