One GB of Russian residential traffic costs $0.50/GB on HProxy Residential Lite, with Russia as the country. Residential Premium adds a choice of 915 cities and 1,228 networks at $1.45 for one GB. The IP comes from a Russian internet provider, so Russian sites show you what a visitor in Russia sees.
Three facts shape the purchase. Rostelecom alone holds 24.7% of Russia's 45 million IPv4 addresses, and 2,873 small holders share another 14.4%. Two of the five large sellers we read, Bright Data and Oxylabs, keep no Russia page at all. And 87 of the 89 working free Russian proxies on our list on November 10, 2026, had been flagged by an IP reputation check.
Which networks does a Russian IP come from?
RIPE NCC, the internet registry for Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia, lists every block of addresses it gives out, with the holder's country. Its file, with records to November 9, 2026, lists 45,252,160 IPv4 addresses for Russia, in 11,463 blocks held by 3,094 holders:
Rostelecom holds 11,190,016 addresses. VimpelCom holds 3,468,800 under two holder records, ER-Telecom 3,389,696, MTS 2,473,984 and MegaFon 2,441,472. Next come TransTeleCom, Novotelecom and Selectel.
How is Russia's address space split?
With a long tail. The ten largest holders have 56.5% of the addresses, and 2,873 small holders, with 16,384 addresses or fewer each, share 14.4%:
That spread shows in the targeting options. Our page on Russian proxies lists 1,228 networks that Residential Premium can target, in 915 cities, from lists dated October 9, 2026.
Which sellers still offer Russian IPs, and how many?
Three of five. We read five large sellers' Russia pages through our server on November 10, 2026:
| Seller | Advertised | Of Russia's IPv4 |
|---|---|---|
| Shifter | 2,038,066 | 4.5% |
| Decodo | 819,556 | 1.8% |
| DataImpulse | 543,686 in 30 days | 1.2% |
The Russia addresses of Bright Data and Oxylabs forward to their general location lists, and neither list names Russia. DataImpulse counts 543,686 over 30 days and 17,946 over 24 hours, next to 9,851 active at once, so its 30-day count is 55 times its active pool. When you compare, ask over how many days a number was counted. We do not publish a pool size per country ourselves.
What do you see through a Russian IP?
What people in Russia see. Google's help page notes that "IP addresses are roughly based on geography" and that your location "helps to show you nearby results". A Russian exit returns Russian search results and prices in rubles where a store sets them by location. Residential Premium narrows it to a city such as Moscow, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg or Nizhniy Novgorod; Residential Lite covers the country at the lowest rate.
The proxy changes your address and nothing else, so each site's rules still apply. Detection vendors list residential proxies as well: MaxMind's Anonymous IP database carries an is_residential_proxy flag. Our guide to how websites detect proxies explains the other checks.
Why do free Russian proxies fail?
Because sites already know them. Since May 13, 2026, our collector has seen 13,781 Russian addresses on public free proxy lists, and 3,042 of them worked at least once, 2,055 of those outside datacenter networks:
On November 10, 2026, 89 were working, and an IP reputation check had flagged 87 of them as proxies and reported 82 for recent abuse. So a free Russian proxy is an address sites already know. Use one to test code, nothing more. Our free proxy list for Russia shows the working ones.
How do you pay?
Our checkout takes a Visa or Mastercard card from $10, or crypto from $3, and both fund one balance that never expires. Visa cards issued in Russia are the catch: when Visa suspended its Russia operations on March 5, 2022, it said that transactions with Visa cards issued in Russia "will no longer work outside the country". Our guide to buying proxies with crypto shows what each network charges to send a payment. PayPal is not offered; our payment options page lists every method.
How much traffic should you plan?
About 380 full desktop pages per GB, going by HTTP Archive's 2024 median page of 2,652 KB (2,311 KB on mobile). Requests without images use much less, so measure twenty of your own pages before you top up.
Which one should you buy?
For most Russian jobs, buy Residential Lite with Russia as the country, at $0.50 for one GB and $0.23 per GB at volume. Free Russian proxies lose: 87 of the 89 working ones on our list were flagged. Choose Residential Premium when the job needs a city, one of the 1,228 networks or a sticky session of up to 24 hours. It costs $1.45 for one GB and $0.65 per GB at volume. Our residential proxies page has the full price list.
What this page could not check
- We tested no speed, success rate or block rate, on any network, ours included.
- We do not publish which Russian networks our own exits come from, or how many there are.
- RIPE NCC's file counts addresses given out, which is neither the addresses in use nor a count of users.
- We left out APNIC Labs' estimate of users per network for Russia: its 446 networks sum to 184 million users, and its largest entries do not match the providers the registry lists.
- Seller pool numbers are as advertised on November 10, 2026. We could not check what each one counts.
- The free proxy figures come from one day and one IP reputation check.
- We will check every number on this page again by February 13, 2027.
Sources
- RIPE NCC, delegated-ripencc-extended-latest, records to November 9, 2026, read November 10, 2026.
- RIPE NCC, RDAP records for the largest Russian address blocks, read November 10, 2026.
- RIPE NCC, "About Us", read November 9, 2026.
- Google Search Help, "Understand and manage your location when you search on Google", read November 9, 2026.
- HTTP Archive, Web Almanac 2024, Page Weight chapter, published December 30, 2024, updated January 2, 2025.
- MaxMind, GeoIP Anonymous IP database documentation, read November 9, 2026.
- Visa, "Visa Suspends All Russia Operations", March 5, 2022, read November 10, 2026.
- Shifter, Bright Data, DataImpulse, Decodo and Oxylabs, Russia location pages, as served on November 10, 2026.
- HProxy, Russia page and payment options page, read November 9 and 10, 2026.
- HProxy, free proxy measurement for Russia, November 10, 2026.
