Cities of the South of France for Russian speakers

We are one community for the whole South of France, so our cities are tied together by a single chat. The most detailed guide covers Montpellier, our home base. After that come the major cities of Occitanie and the Côte d’Azur, where you’ll definitely find our people.

Looking for a department rather than a city? Residence paperwork goes through your department préfecture, not your town hall, so we cover departments separately: Hérault (34) - préfecture in Montpellier; Alpes-Maritimes (06) - préfecture in Nice; Gard (30) - a single titre de séjour desk for the whole department, in Nîmes; Bouches-du-Rhône (13) - Marseille, Aix and Arles. Each page covers the préfecture, the sous-préfectures, the towns and the transport.

If your city isn’t on the list yet, that doesn’t mean you’re on your own. Drop into the chat and ask: almost certainly someone lives nearby, and the closest big city with a detailed guide will point you to where to go for paperwork and official documents.

Every city guide is built with the same honesty: an invitation card on top, and below it - the community nearby, relocation and paperwork (real addresses for the préfecture, OFII, CPAM, CAF), an insider’s directory (shops, churches, Russian-speaking doctors, translators), housing and work, and a “city for living and visiting” section. Whatever we don’t know about a particular city, we don’t make up.