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List of items and substances allowed for air transportation in carry-on baggage:

Item/Substance:	Note:
Umbrellas, canes, files, cases, purses, hygienic items, stamped media, medicine, coats, fur coats, rain coats, food, wheel-chairs for disabled, cradles if there is a childe under 1 year old.	Total weight cannot exceed 5 kg.
Items and articles requiring particular security considerations when during transportation (video and photographic equipment, telerecording and radio equipment, electronic devices, music instruments, glass, china and ceramics items, etc.)	If passengers have electronic games, portable video cameras, video recorders, mobile telephones and other electronic equipment, they are to be notified about restriction of their use on board the aircraft for the purpose of exclusion of jamming in the systems of communication and aero navigation of the aircraft during the flight.
Vinegar essence (not more than 0.5 l per passenger)	Listed liquids shall be originally packed
Alcohol (up to 70%) and alcohol products
Enamels and liquids for hair in aerosol cans, and refreshing liquids of alcohol and lacquer basis.
Lighters and cans with liquefied gas for lighters (not more than two cans per passenger).	Excluding disposable gas lighters and lighters leaking in the condition of low pressure.
Clasp travel knives, pen knives, service-utility knives with a razor not longer than 110 mm
Medical thermometers	Not more than one passenger
Mercury tonometers in standard package
Mercury barometers and manometers packed in special hermetic containers with the seal of the sender
Containers with calibration radioisotope sources	Not more than four
Dry ice for cooling of perishable goods	Not more than 2 kg for one passenger
3% hydric dioxide	Not more than 100 ml for one passenger
Liquids, gels, aerosols considered safe	In a container of not more than 100 ml (or of equivalent capacity in other volume units), packed in safely closed transparent plastic bag of not more than 1 l – one bag for one passenger.

List of goods and substances allowed for air transportation in the baggage compartment

Goods/substances :	Notes:
Crossbows, harpoon guns, swords, backswords, ataghans, broadswords, falchions, skewers, bayonets, daggers, knives: sheath-knives, folding blade knives, clasp knives, any kind of weapon impersonator
General purpose knives (scissors) with the blade length more than 60 mm.
Alcohol drinks with more than 24% and less than 70 % alcoholic contents in containers, the capacity of which is not more than 5 liters, in the packing for retail business.	Not more than 5 liters for one passenger.
Liquids and alcohol drinks with not more than 24% alcoholic contents.
Sprays for everyday and sport usage in containers, the capacity of which is not more than 0,5 kg or 500 ml. Their blowoff valves must be protected from spontaneous contents escaping by closure.	Not more than 2 kg or 2 liters for one passenger.

Airport, airline or air operator’s administration is entitled to make a decision of introducing additional measures in terms of aviation security provision en routes which are of heightened danger, thus prohibiting the following items for transportation on board the aircraft: bottle openers; hypodermic needles (unless a medical validation is available); knitting pins; scissors with the blade length less than sixty (60) mm.; folding knives (without a clasp), traveling knives, penknives with the blade length less than sixty (60) mm .

Liquids in containers which volume is more than one hundred (100) millilitres are not allowed to be taken on board even in case the container is filled by halves.

Apart from this being said, pharmaceuticals, baby food and special dietary needs are allowed for transportation.

The liquids which have been purchased either in a duty-free shop at the airport or on board the A/C shall be properly packed in a sealed plastic bag that ensures access identification to the contents of the bag during the flight and that has got a true approval of the fact that the purchase was made in a duty-free shop at the airport or on board the aircraft on the date(s) of the trip.

List of dangerous substances and items prohibited for air transportation by passengers in both carry-on luggage and luggage (in the cargo compartment)

Explosives, blasting agents and items stuffed with explosives:

any kind of gun-powder in any bag and any kind of quantity; ball cartridges (including those ones of small caliber); gas spray cartridges; (hunting) fulminate caps; fireworks: pistol lights and light flares, signal cartridges, touchdown sticks, smoke barrels (pellets), blaster’s matches, Bengal fire, railway detonators; trinitrotuol, dynamite, triton, ammonal as well as other explosives; blasting caps, electric initiators, flash fuses, detonating cords and slow matches, etc.;

Pressurized fluids and gas liquids:

resident use gases (butane-propane) and others; gas-bags containing neuroparalityc or tear gas, etc.;

Inflammable liquids:

acetone; gasoline; highly inflammable petroleum products; methanol; methyl acetate (dymethyl ether); carbon disulfide; ethers; ethylcellosolve;

Inflammable solid agents:

substances exposed to spontaneous combustion; heat-causing water-action and combustible gases causing spontaneous firing: potassium, sodium, calcium metal and its alloys, calcium phosphide and others; white, yellow and red phosphorus and all other chemical substances related to inflammable solid substances;

Acidifying substances and organic peroxides: granulous or flaked trinitrocellulose, dry or wet, containing water or dissolvent less than 25%; tableted trinitrocellulose, wet, containing spirit less than 25%, dry or wet trinitrocellulose, containing water or dissolvent less than 20%.

Toxic agents

Radiological agents

Caustic and corrosive agents:

aggressive inorganic acids: chlorine hydride, sulfuric acid, hydrogen nitrate, etc; hydrofluoric acid and other strong acids and corrosive agents;

Poisons and intoxicants:

any kind of toxicant, virulent and contaminating liquid/solid packaged agents: brucine, nicotine, strychnine, tetrahydrofurfuryl spirit, antifreezing agents, hydraulic-brake fluid, ethyleneglucol, mercury; hydrogen cyanide and cyanic products: cyanide, cyanide salts, arsenous anhydride, etc.; other hazardous substances, items and cargo goods, which may be used as arms for attacking the passengers, flight crew, as well as may endanger the aircraft in terms of flight safety

Weapons:

guns, revolvers, rifles, carbines and other fire, gas spray or pneumatic arms, electroshock devices, cutlasses, stilettos, knife-bayonets for landing personnel, except for cases and in the manner approved by the law of the Russian Federation.

A detailed list of hazardous substances and items which are prohibited for air transportation on board by the crew members and passengers is represented in the Technical Instructions for the Safe Transportation of Dangerous Goods by Air (Doc 9284 AN/905 ICAO).



* Composed on the basis of the following regulatory documents:

1. " List of basic dangerous substances and items which are prohibited (allowed in compliance with required provisions) for air transportation on board the aircraft by crew members and passengers in the checked-in baggage and carry-on baggage of the passengers (Annex no. 1 to the Rules of Pre-flight and Post-flight Inspection Approved by the Directive # 104 of the Ministry of Transport, Russian Federation, dated July 25th, 2007) "

2. " Manual for Inspection procedures of passengers, flight crews of civil aircraft, maintenance personnel, carry-on items, baggage, cargo, mail and onboard supplies" (Directive # 102 of the Ministry of Transport, Russian Federation, dated November 21st, 1995 (Withdrawal)