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<b><font size=3>Packing List</font></b>

Items that could be useful to carry along when voyaging to the FSU and visiting - based on suggestions/experiences by:<br><br>  

<b>KenInUtah:</b><ul>
<li>Clothing and shoes (I wrote this because someone would mention it otherwise). 
<li>Sports coat.
<li>Spring jacket (I'm going late April).
<li>Prescriptions.
<li>Current Converter.
<li>Phone charger.
<li>Copies of all your documents.
<li>Aspirin, Pepto, general toiletries.
<li>Ziploc bags.
<li>Baby wipes (for cleaning hands while out and about).
<li>Travel pillow.
<li>Money belt.
</ul><br>

<b>Calmissile:</b><ul>
<li>220 V European adapter plugs for computer and various chargers.
<li>Misc. chargers for electronics (tablet, computer, camera, etc.)
<li>Misc. accessory cords for downloading photos, etc between media.
<li>Spare thumb drives, etc.
<li>Phone numbers and addresses for Russia contacts and USA contacts including banks, etc.
<li>You might want to take a small gift that is made in the USA that depicts something about the country:  maps, flags, Disneyland Shirts were popular for my wife's family.
<li>Handheld GPS (even though she will be leading you around, it is interesting to follow on the GPS where you go and where you have been).
<li>I don't recall her English skills, but my wife and I used an electronic translator quite a bit.  Both on computer and tablet.
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<b>Mendeleyev:</b><ul>
<li>A couple of small flashlights.
<li>Several packets of travel tissues: you will not only use them to blow your nose but as napkins and as toilet tissue when out and about, or on the train (in winter I recommend about 4 packets for each week's stay).
<li>A printed Moscow Metro map. http://engl.mosmetro.ru/flash/scheme01.html
<li>An umbrella. 
<li>A notepad and ink pens: helpful for all sort of uses, from writing down directions to copying words you see that you'd like to learn. 
<li>Several cloth/fabric shopping bags: they take very little space and weigh nothing, but are indispensable when out and about, and especially on the train. 
<li>At least one canvas-type lined shopping bag, the thin but lined type designed to keep things cold in summer: these are absolutely handy to keep dry from the elements such things as cameras, books, metro maps, souvenirs, etc. 
<li>Several small flash drives for cameras and audio devices (better than one large drive per apparatus: all it takes is one theft, one police or military checkpoint confiscation, or one lost drive to ruin days or weeks' worth of photographing/recording if everything is on a single drive). 
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