Russian speakers in Paris: churches, schools, consulates

Russian-speaking Paris: where it is

There is no single Russian quarter in Paris. Our people’s addresses are scattered across the city and out into the suburbs: the cathedral on rue Daru, Saturday schools in the 6th and the 15th, shops with tvorog in the 11th, the 14th and the 15th, a Ukrainian school in Vincennes, a Russian section at a collège in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. We’ve pulled them together on one page and checked each against its primary source as of 20 October 2026. Vibe South of France began in the South, in Montpellier, yet our chat now has people from all over France: tell us which arrondissement or suburb you live in and ask who of ours is close by.

Just moved? Below is what people tend to look for in their first weeks. Churches with service times, schools with their 2026/2027 fees, shops, consulates, the addresses of the préfecture, OFII, CAF and CPAM, rents by arrondissement and the way in from the airports. Where we haven’t checked something, we tell you.

What the directory holds now

The directory covers Paris with its suburbs, which here means INSEE’s catchment area of Paris: 13,320,752 people at the 2023 census. Right now it lists:

• churches: 62;
• schools and courses: 14;
• Russian programmes at state schools (international sections and a lycée): 5;
• university programmes: 8;
• associations: 1;
• shops with Russian food: 7;
• embassies and consular sections: 12.

Entries still waiting to be checked against a primary source are kept out of both the count and the lists below, so in reality there are more addresses than this.

Churches in Paris and the suburbs

Churches of Russian tradition in the directory for Paris and its suburbs: 27, and 11 of those stand within Paris. The rest belong to other traditions: Romanian 17, Ecumenical Patriarchate 5 (including the Georgian parish of Saint Nino at 6-8 rue de la Rosière), Ukrainian Greek Catholic 4, Armenian 4, Serbian 3, Bulgarian 1 and Russian Catholic of the Byzantine rite 1. Romanian parishes are found both inside the city and all round the ring of suburbs, from Cachan and Villeneuve-Saint-Georges to Villemomble.

Rue Daru. Cathédrale Saint-Alexandre-Nevsky, 12 rue Daru (8th arrondissement), is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Orthodox Churches of Russian Tradition in Western Europe (Moscow Patriarchate). The All-Night Vigil is on Saturdays at 18:00; on Sundays the Hours and the liturgy start at 10:00. Between services visitors can come in on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday from 15:00 to 18:00. Down in the crypt, at the same address, a separate parish, Holy Trinity, serves in French. And on Wednesdays at 14:30 the parish Russian school meets there for children aged 4-16 (its new school year began on 30 September 2026).

Quai Jacques Chirac. Cathédrale de la Sainte-Trinité, 1 quai Jacques Chirac (7th), belongs to the Moscow Patriarchate’s Diocese of Chersonese. Sunday brings two liturgies in Church Slavonic, at 8:00 (together with the Hours) and at 10:00. On Saturday there’s a liturgy in French at 10:00 and the All-Night Vigil in Church Slavonic at 17:00; an akathist on Thursday at 17:00, and on Friday at 9:00 a liturgy in Moldovan. The cathedral is open every day from 14:00 to 19:00, and during services.

The 15th arrondissement. No arrondissement has more Russian-tradition churches than this one: three. Église cathédrale des Trois-Saints-Docteurs at 5 rue Pétel (Diocese of Chersonese) serves every day, morning and evening, and opens only for services. Église de la Présentation-de-la-Vierge-au-Temple at 91 rue Olivier de Serres and Église de Saint-Séraphin-de-Sarov at 91 rue Lecourbe belong to the Archdiocese, with the vigil on Saturday at 18:00 and the liturgy on Sunday at 10:00. The same arrondissement also has the Teremok school, on place du Commerce.

Elsewhere in the city. At Saint-Serge-de-Radonège, 93 rue de Crimée (19th, Archdiocese), the Sunday liturgy is at 9:30, the vigil on Saturday at 18:00 and vespers at 18:00 on weekdays and Sundays. Notre-Dame-Joie-des-Affligés et Sainte-Geneviève, 4 rue Saint-Victor (5th, Diocese of Chersonese), serves in French: the vigil on Saturday at 18:00, Matins and the liturgy on Sunday at 10:00, then catechism for children. Two parishes in the 16th publish no times at all: Notre-Dame-du-Signe, 87 boulevard Exelmans (Ecumenical Patriarchate, vicariate of Russian tradition), and Église de Tous les Saints glorifiés en Terre Russe, 19 rue Claude Lorrain (Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, ROCOR). The relics of Saint Helena rest in the church of Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles, 92 rue Saint-Denis, and an akathist is read before them on Fridays at 16:00; when we looked on 11 October 2026, the parish page had no liturgy calendar for the autumn.

The suburbs. In Meudon, Église de la Résurrection du Christ, 8 rue des Bigots (ROCOR), has the All-Night Vigil on Saturday at 18:00 and the liturgy on Sunday at 10:00, going by its October 2026 schedule. In Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, Église orthodoxe russe de la Dormition, 8 rue Léo Lagrange, holds the vigil on Saturday at 17:00 and the liturgy on Sunday at 9:45. The parish has a committee that looks after Russian Orthodox graves, and its office is open on weekdays 8:00-12:00 and 13:00-17:00. In Épinay-sous-Sénart, at the seminary at 4 rue Sainte-Geneviève, Sunday Matins is at 9:00 and the liturgy at 10:00, and visitors are also let in at weekends from 14:00 to 18:00.

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Cathédrale Saint Volodymyr le Grand is at 51 rue des Saints-Pères (6th). Its liturgy is at 18:00 on weekdays (in French on Mondays), at 9:00 and 18:00 on Saturday, and at 8:00, 10:00, 12:00 and 17:00 on Sunday (except in summer). The Armenian cathedral of Saint-Jean-Baptiste is at 15 rue Jean-Goujon (8th), and in Alfortville, at 4 rue Komitas, services are held on Sundays and feast days at 10:30. There’s more on the pages Ukrainians in France and Armenians in France.

Feast days shift the timetable, and some parishes only publish a month at a time, so check with the parish or ask in the chat before your first visit. Every church in France is in our directory of churches.

• Église catholique russe de la Très-Sainte-Trinité
  Catholic Church, Byzantine rite
  services in: Church Slavonic
  39 rue François-Gérard, 75016 Paris
• Paroisse orthodoxe bulgare « Saint-Patriarche-Euthyme-de-Tarnovo »
  Bulgarian Orthodox Church
  1 rue de la Croix-Moreau, 75018 Paris
• Cathédrale de la Sainte-Trinité
  Moscow Patriarchate, Diocese of Chersonese
  services in: Church Slavonic
  1 quai Jacques Chirac, 75007 Paris
• Cathédrale Saint-Alexandre-Nevsky
  Archdiocese of Orthodox Churches of Russian Tradition in Western Europe (Moscow Patriarchate)
  services in: Church Slavonic
  12 rue Daru, 75008 Paris
• Célébrations auprès des reliques de Sainte Hélène
  Moscow Patriarchate, Diocese of Chersonese
  92 rue Saint-Denis, 75001 Paris
• Chapelle du Saint-Esprit - chapelle de la Maison de Berdiaev
  single source
  Moscow Patriarchate, Diocese of Chersonese
  services in: Church Slavonic, French
  83 rue du Moulin-de-Pierre, 92140 Clamart
• Église (chapelle) Saint-Nicolas
  single source
  Archdiocese of Orthodox Churches of Russian Tradition in Western Europe (Moscow Patriarchate)
  services in: Church Slavonic
  35 rue du Martray, 95240 Cormeilles-en-Parisis
• Église cathédrale des Trois-Saints-Docteurs
  Moscow Patriarchate, Diocese of Chersonese
  services in: Church Slavonic
  5 rue Pétel, 75015 Paris
• Église de la Présentation-de-la-Vierge-au-Temple
  Archdiocese of Orthodox Churches of Russian Tradition in Western Europe (Moscow Patriarchate)
  services in: Church Slavonic
  91 rue Olivier de Serres, 75015 Paris
• Église de la Résurrection du Christ
  Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
  8 rue des Bigots, 92190 Meudon
• Église de Saint-Séraphin-de-Sarov et de la Protection-de-la-Mère-de-Dieu
  Archdiocese of Orthodox Churches of Russian Tradition in Western Europe (Moscow Patriarchate)
  services in: Church Slavonic, French
  91 rue Lecourbe, 75015 Paris
• Église de Tous les Saints glorifiés en Terre Russe
  single source
  Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
  19 rue Claude Lorrain, 75016 Paris
• Église du Christ-Sauveur
  Archdiocese of Orthodox Churches of Russian Tradition in Western Europe (Moscow Patriarchate)
  services in: Church Slavonic
  7 bis rue du Bois, 92600 Asnières-sur-Seine
• Église Notre-Dame-Souveraine et Saint-Silouane
  Archdiocese of Orthodox Churches of Russian Tradition in Western Europe (Moscow Patriarchate)
  services in: Church Slavonic, French
  22 rue Alexis Maneyrol, 92370 Chaville
• Église orthodoxe russe de la Dormition-de-la-Mère-de-Dieu
  Archdiocese of Orthodox Churches of Russian Tradition in Western Europe (Moscow Patriarchate)
  services in: Church Slavonic, French
  8 rue Léo Lagrange, 91700 Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois
• Église Saint-Séraphin-de-Sarov et Saints-Serge-et-Germain-de-Valaam
  Moscow Patriarchate, Diocese of Chersonese
  services in: Church Slavonic, French, Romanian
  rue du Moulin de Senlis, 91230 Montgeron
• Église Saint-Séraphin-de-Sarov
  Archdiocese of Orthodox Churches of Russian Tradition in Western Europe (Moscow Patriarchate)
  services in: Church Slavonic, French
  23 avenue de l'Étoile d'Or, 77500 Chelles
• Paroisse de la Trinité (crypte de la cathédrale Saint-Alexandre-Nevsky)
  single source
  Archdiocese of Orthodox Churches of Russian Tradition in Western Europe (Moscow Patriarchate)
  services in: French
  12 rue Daru, 75008 Paris
• Paroisse Notre-Dame-du-Signe
  single source
  Ecumenical Patriarchate, vicariate of Russian tradition
  services in: Church Slavonic, French
  87 boulevard Exelmans, 75016 Paris
• Paroisse Notre-Dame-Joie-des-Affligés et Sainte-Geneviève
  Moscow Patriarchate, Diocese of Chersonese
  services in: French
  4 rue Saint-Victor, 75005 Paris
• Paroisse orthodoxe Saints-Pierre-et-Paul de Châtenay-Malabry
  Ecumenical Patriarchate, vicariate of Russian tradition
  services in: French
  43 avenue du Plessis, 92290 Châtenay-Malabry
• Paroisse Saint-Apôtre-et-Évangéliste-Matthieu
  single source
  Ecumenical Patriarchate, vicariate of Russian tradition
  services in: French
  158 avenue Charles de Gaulle, 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine
• Paroisse Saint-Jean-le-Théologien
  single source
  Ecumenical Patriarchate, vicariate of Russian tradition
  services in: French
  45 rue de la Belgique, 92190 Meudon
• Paroisse Saint-Nicolas-le-Thaumaturge
  Ecumenical Patriarchate, vicariate of Russian tradition
  services in: Church Slavonic, French
  132 bis rue du Point du Jour, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
• Paroisse Saint-Serge-de-Radonège
  Archdiocese of Orthodox Churches of Russian Tradition in Western Europe (Moscow Patriarchate)
  services in: Church Slavonic
  93 rue de Crimée, 75019 Paris
• Paroisse Sainte-Trinité (Vanves)
  Moscow Patriarchate, Diocese of Chersonese
  services in: Church Slavonic, French
  16 rue Michel-Ange, 92170 Vanves
• Paroisse Saints-Constantin-et-Hélène
  Moscow Patriarchate, Diocese of Chersonese
  services in: Church Slavonic
  4 bis rue Henry, 92140 Clamart
• Séminaire orthodoxe russe en France - église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité et chapelle Sainte-Geneviève-et-Saint-Martin
  Moscow Patriarchate, Diocese of Chersonese
  services in: Church Slavonic, French
  4 rue Sainte-Geneviève, 91860 Épinay-sous-Sénart
• Skite du Saint-Esprit
  Moscow Patriarchate, Diocese of Chersonese
  services in: Church Slavonic, French
  7 avenue des Bruyères, 78320 Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis
• Cathédrale Saint Volodymyr le Grand
  Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
  services in: Ukrainian
  51 rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris
• Paroisse de Tous les Saints
  Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
  35 rue Mirabeau, 94300 Vincennes
• Paroisse des saints Borys et Hlib
  single source
  Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
  2 rue de Meaux, 60300 Senlis
• Paroisse du Saint-Esprit
  Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
  services in: Ukrainian
  20 rue Armagis, 78100 Saint-Germain-en-Laye
• Cathédrale des Saints-Archanges-Michel-Gabriel-et-Raphaël
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  services in: French, Romanian
  9 bis rue Jean de Beauvais, 75005 Paris
• Cathédrale Saint-Stéphane
  single source
  Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
  7 rue Georges Bizet, 75116 Paris
• Église de la Synaxe-de-la-Mère-de-Dieu-et-du-Saint-Prophète-Élie - Résidence métropolitaine
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  services in: Romanian
  1 boulevard du Général Leclerc, 91470 Limours
• Église orthodoxe Saint-Germain-et-Saint-Cloud («Le Tilleul»)
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  services in: French
  21 rue de Montbuisson, 78430 Louveciennes
• Mission Saints-Joachim-et-Anne (Biserica ortodoxă din Palaiseau)
  single source
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  services in: Romanian
  14 avenue du 1er Mai, 91120 Palaiseau
• Paroisse de l’Ascension, Synaxe du Saint Jean Baptiste, Saint-Stéphane-le-Grand (Biserica Sfântul Ștefan cel Mare)
  single source
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  services in: Romanian
  27 rue des Roches, 93100 Montreuil
• Paroisse de l’Exaltation-de-la-Sainte-Croix et du Dimanche de saint Thomas
  single source
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  5 rue Graffan, 93190 Livry-Gargan
• Paroisse de la Descente-du-Saint-Esprit (Parohia Ortodoxă Română «Pogorârea Duhului Sfânt» Paris 1)
  single source
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  services in: Romanian
  8 rue d’Alsace, 92110 Clichy
• Paroisse de la Sainte-Rencontre (Întâmpinarea Domnului)
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  44 avenue d'Alsace-Lorraine, 94500 Champigny-sur-Marne
• Paroisse de la Sainte-Trinité-et-du-Saint-mégalomartyr-Georges
  single source
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  10 place des Érables (chapelle Saint-Joseph), 94190 Villeneuve-Saint-Georges
• Paroisse des 1re et 2e Inventions du Chef de saint Jean-Baptiste
  single source
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  101 rue de Neuilly (chapelle Saint-André), 93250 Villemomble
• Paroisse Géorgienne Sainte-Nino
  single source
  Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
  6-8 rue de la Rosière, 75015 Paris
• Paroisse la-Présentation-du-Sauveur-au-Temple
  single source
  Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
  100 avenue Maurice Berteaux, 78500 Sartrouville
• Paroisse Les Saints Calinique de Cernica et Jean Maximovici, Fontainebleau
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  services in: Romanian
  27 avenue du Général de Gaulle, 77210 Avon
• Paroisse orthodoxe Saint-Jean de San Francisco
  single source
  Serbian Orthodox Church
  services in: French
  2 rue Roger Campestre, 92600 Asnières-sur-Seine
• Paroisse orthodoxe Saint-Martin (Sucy-en-Brie)
  single source
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  21 boulevard de la Liberté, 94370 Sucy-en-Brie
• Paroisse Saint-Dimitrios-le-Myroblyte et Saint-Jean-l’Évangéliste
  single source
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  33 rue Georges-Marie, 93700 Drancy
• Paroisse Saint-Jean-Cassien-et-Sainte-Geneviève (Église orthodoxe de Trappes)
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  services in: French, Romanian
  22 rue du Bel Air, 78190 Trappes
• Paroisse Saint-Jean-l’Apôtre-et-Évangéliste (Parohia Ortodoxă Sfântul Apostol și Evanghelist Ioan)
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  15 rue de Verdun, 94230 Cachan
• Paroisse Saint-Sava
  Serbian Orthodox Church
  23 rue du Simplon, 75018 Paris
• Paroisse Saint-Spyridon
  single source
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  52 rue de Reims, 93600 Aulnay-sous-Bois
• Paroisse Sainte-Parascève – Bondy
  single source
  Serbian Orthodox Church
  224 avenue de Rosny, 93140 Bondy
• Paroisse Sainte-Parascève-et-Sainte-Geneviève
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  services in: Romanian
  35 rue Saint-Sulpice, 75006 Paris
• Paroisse Saints-Constantin-et-Hélène
  single source
  Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
  2 bis rue Laferrière, 75009 Paris
• Paroisse Saints-Raphaël-Nicolas-et-Irène (Foyer hellénique)
  single source
  Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
  services in: Greek
  15 Petite Voie des Vignes, 92290 Châtenay-Malabry
• Cathédrale arménienne apostolique Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Paris
  Armenian Apostolic Church
  15 rue Jean-Goujon, 75008 Paris
• Église apostolique arménienne Saint-Paul et Saint-Pierre d’Alfortville
  Armenian Apostolic Church
  4 rue Komitas, 94140 Alfortville
• Église apostolique arménienne Sainte-Croix-de-Varak
  single source
  Armenian Apostolic Church
  31-33 rue Saint-Just, 95400 Arnouville
• Église Sainte-Marie-Mère-de-Dieu d’Issy-les-Moulineaux
  single source
  Armenian Apostolic Church
  6 avenue Bourgain, 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

Checked: 20 October 2026 © OpenStreetMap contributors

A Russian school for your child

Paris gives you a real choice, and the schools publish their own fees. Gymnasium No. 1 (Gymnasium One Paris, 108 rue de Vaugirard, 6th) teaches children aged 2-18 every Saturday, all lessons in Russian. For 2026/2027 the fee is €259 a month for ages 2-4, €329 for 4-6 and €350 from age 7, paid in ten instalments from September to June; a second child brings 10% off, a third 15%, and clubs cost €20 a lesson. The Russian Classical Gymnasium (Gymnasium classique russe, 2 avenue Rapp, 7th) is a one-day school on Saturdays (its website also mentions Wednesdays), while its clubs run nearly every day of the week.

Teremok (École active russe Teremok, 4 place du Commerce, 15th) takes children aged 3-16 on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The little ones, from eighteen months, have the Bébé Club on Mondays, 9:30-11:30. Surprise (4 rue Titon, 11th) has more than 100 pupils aged 2 to 14: speech development from the age of two, then chess, drawing, music, choir and theatre for children up to 17.

Out in the suburbs, École russe MIR in Montrouge (3 rue de la Solidarité; 2026-2027 classes began on 16 September, 20% off for a second child) and MIR Franco-Russe in Châtenay-Malabry (7 avenue de la Division Leclerc; “MIRcredi” for ages 6-9 on Wednesdays 9:00-12:00) both teach on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Galaxy in Boulogne-Billancourt (30 rue de l’Ancienne Mairie) is open on Wednesdays from 8:30 to 18:00 and on Saturdays until 13:00, and ARCADE in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on Saturdays.

There’s also a way in through an ordinary French school: the Russian international section. In the 6th that means the Littré primary school (6 rue Littré, Russian within school hours, at least 3 hours a week) and the Jacques Prévert collège (18 rue Saint-Benoît); in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the Marcel Roby collège and the Lycée international. How enrolment in a French school works in general is covered in our guide school and nursery in France.

For Ukrainian-speaking families there’s the Olena Viter school in Vincennes (16 rue de Strasbourg, ages 6-13) and Krila, run by La Maison Ukrainienne, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Saturdays; €409 a year for 2 hours, €529 for 3) and in Rueil-Malmaison (€349 a year per child). Adults can take evening courses in Russian and Ukrainian at Inalco (65 rue des Grands Moulins, 13th): 2 hours a week, 19:00-21:00, 60 hours over the year according to the 2025-2026 catalogue. Inalco appears four times in the list below, as the evening courses, Ukrainian, the Études russes department and the Eurasie department; the last one teaches Armenian and Georgian, not Russian. The full list is in our directory of Russian schools.

• Académie de Paris - courses (single source). 8 avenue Lamoricière, 75012 Paris.
• Association ARCADE (Association russophone pour la culture, les arts et le développement éducatif). 16-18 boulevard Hector Berlioz, 78100 Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
• École active russe Teremok - association ROSSINKA. 4 place du Commerce, 75015 Paris.
• École paroissiale russe (single source). 12 rue Daru, 75008 Paris.
• École russe MIR. 3 rue de la Solidarité, 92120 Montrouge.
• École russe Surprise. 4 rue Titon, 75011 Paris.
• Galaxy - Académie d'enfants franco-russes de Boulogne-Billancourt. 30 rue de l'Ancienne Mairie, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt.
• Gymnasium classique russe. 2 avenue Rapp, 75007 Paris.
• Gymnasium One Paris, Association GYMNASIUM N°1. 108 rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris.
• Inalco - Département Études russes - Russian at a university. 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris.
• Inalco - Département Eurasie - Russian at a university. 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris.
• Inalco - Russian at a university (single source). 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris.
• Inalco - Russian at a university. 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris.
• La Maison Ukrainienne. 3 rue de la République, 78100 Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
• Linguarik - courses. 3 rue Ernest Lavisse, 78300 Poissy.
• Lycée Fénelon - Russian at a lycée. 2 rue de l'Éperon, 75006 Paris.
• MIR Franco-Russe - école russe et association culturelle. 7 avenue de la Division Leclerc, 92290 Châtenay-Malabry.
• Olena Viter Ukrainian School. 16 rue de Strasbourg, 94300 Vincennes.
• Rueil-Malmaison. 27 rue Guy de Maupassant, 92500 Rueil-Malmaison.
• Section internationale russe - Collège Jacques Prévert - international section. 18 rue Saint-Benoît, 75006 Paris.
• Section internationale russe - Collège Marcel Roby - international section. 3 rue de la Rochejaquelein, 78100 Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
• Section internationale russe - École élémentaire Littré - international section. 6 rue Littré, 75006 Paris.
• Section internationale russe - Lycée international de Saint-Germain-en-Laye - international section. 2 bis rue du Fer à Cheval, 78100 Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
• Sorbonne Université - UFR d'Études slaves - Russian at a university. 108 boulevard Malesherbes, 75017 Paris.
• Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, UFR LLCE-LEA - Russian at a university. 2 rue de la Liberté, 93200 Saint-Denis.
• Université Paris Nanterre - UFR de langues et cultures étrangères (LEA anglais-russe; master études russes et post-soviétiques) - Russian at a university. 200 avenue de la République, 92000 Nanterre.
• Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Russian at a university. 8 avenue de Saint-Mandé, 75012 Paris.

Checked: 20 October 2026

Where to buy Russian food

Shops with Russian food in the directory for Paris and its suburbs: 7.

For tvorog (farmer’s cheese), go to Slavmarket. There are two of them, at 19 rue Chanzy (11th) and 6 rue Poirier de Narçay (14th); their website lists tvorog, pelmeni, pickles and sweets, and both open Tuesday to Saturday 10:00-20:00 and Sunday until 14:00 (closed on Mondays). Svarog at 120 boulevard Voltaire (11th) is open every day from 11:30 to 21:00, for herring, sausage, tinned goods and caviar. Kalinka (7 rue Duban, 16th) has kvass, pelmeni and vareniki, though we haven’t confirmed its hours, so ask in the chat. Prestige Russe at 16 rue Lecourbe (15th), an épicerie et traiteur russe, lists tvorog, kefir, pelmeni, vareniki, khinkali and buckwheat on its website; we haven’t confirmed its hours either. Buckwheat and lavash are worth the trip to Meudon, to the Franco-Armenian NUR (45 avenue du Général de Gaulle, every day 9:00-22:00). Furthest out, in Melun (77), is Matrechka at 18 rue Saint-Barthélemy: we checked the address against the business register, but not yet what it sells or its hours. Other cities are in our directory of Russian shops.

Addresses and hours checked on 12 October 2026 against the French business register (SIRENE), OpenStreetMap and the shops' own pages. Small shops change their hours, so check in our chat before a long trip. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Cafés and restaurants serving CIS cuisines:

• Russian and Ukrainian: La Cantine Russe - 26 avenue de New York, 16th arrondissement, Mon-Sat 12:00-15:00 and 19:00-24:00; Série Limithée - 24 rue Trousseau, 11th; À la Ville de Petrograd - 13 rue Daru, 8th, Tue-Sat 12:00-15:00 and 19:00-23:00; Oranta (Ukrainian) - 1 rue de Marivaux, 2nd, Tue-Fri 12:00-14:30 and 19:00-22:00, Sat-Sun 11:00-16:00 and 18:00-22:00;
• Georgian, Chechen and Uzbek: Tamada - 143 boulevard Saint-Michel, 5th; Vazi - 92 avenue Ledru-Rollin, 11th; Colchide - 79 rue des Martyrs, 18th; Oda - 44 rue Laffitte, 9th, Mon-Sat 12:00-16:00 and 18:00-23:00; Famille Géorgienne - 4 rue Falguière, 15th, daily 11:00-23:30, and 25 boulevard de Bonne-Nouvelle, 2nd; Chez Zareta (Chechen) - 11 rue Xavier Privas, 5th, Tue-Sun 10:30-22:30; Boukhara (Uzbek) - 37 rue de Trévise, 9th;
• Armenian: Juni Coffee - 18 rue Saint-Antoine, 4th, Mon-Fri 8:30-18:00, Sat-Sun 9:00-19:00; Juni - 79 rue Daguerre, 14th, and 5 rue d’Odessa, 14th, with the rue d’Odessa branch open daily 12:00-22:00.

For books in Russian there is Librairie du Globe, 67 boulevard Beaumarchais, 3rd arrondissement, Tue-Sat 10:30-19:45. Sources: OpenStreetMap, the SIRENE business register and the venues’ own pages, checked on 22 October 2026. Know somewhere else? Tell us in the chat.

Embassies and consulates

Embassies and consular sections in the directory for Paris: 12. All of them are in Paris proper, except the embassy of Tajikistan in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

• Russia: the embassy’s consular section (the Russian consulate), 40-50 boulevard Lannes (16th); strictly by prior appointment.
• Ukraine: the embassy and its consular section, both at 21 avenue de Saxe (7th).
• Belarus: the embassy, 38 boulevard Suchet (16th).
• Kazakhstan: the embassy at 3 rue de Tilsitt and, separately, the consular service at 59 rue Pierre Charron (both in the 8th). Make sure you go to the right one.
• Moldova: the embassy with its consular section, 19 rue Henri Rochefort (17th); the public is seen Monday to Thursday, never on Fridays.
• Armenia: the embassy, 9-11 rue Bénouville (16th); consular reception Monday to Thursday 9:30-13:00, by appointment only.
• Georgia: 8 rue Brémontier (17th). Uzbekistan: 22 rue d’Aguesseau (8th). Kyrgyzstan: 42 boulevard Flandrin (16th). Tajikistan: 60 avenue Charles de Gaulle, Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Phone numbers, websites and hours, exactly as the missions publish them, are on the pages Russians in France, Ukrainians in France, Armenians in France and Post-Soviet diasporas in France.

Associations

Associations on our list for Paris: 1. The women’s choir Ukrainessence was registered in the summer of 2025. We don’t publish associations’ phone numbers or websites, just the name and the place.

• Chœur de femmes Ukrainessence. Paris.

Checked: 11 October 2026

Paperwork: Paris police préfecture, OFII, CAF, CPAM

Paris is a département of its own (75), so everything a foreigner has to deal with is inside the city. Residence permits for people living in Paris are handled by the Paris police préfecture (Préfecture de police de Paris). The general procedure and what all the acronyms stand for are in our Relocation section; below are the addresses that apply to Paris.

• Préfecture de police de Paris - Service des titres de séjourgeneral préfecture address in the service-public directory: 1 bis rue de Lutèce, 75004 Paris · tel. 3430

  Residence permits for people living in Paris are handled by this préfecture’s Service des titres de séjour: that is the name service-public gives it under “Où s’adresser ?”. Applications go through the ANEF website; a “vie privée et familiale” card or a multi-year card is renewed online, no earlier than 4 months and no later than 2 months before it expires. The directory doesn’t say which building receives foreigners: the address will be in your appointment or summons. The steps are in our guide to the titre de séjour.

  Official site - Préfecture de police de Paris - Service des titres de séjour →

• OFII - Direction territoriale de Paris (département 75)83 rue de Patay, 75013 Paris · Mon-Fri 8:30-12:00 and 13:30-16:30 (service-public directory, data as of 28 April 2025)

  You come when OFII summons you or gives you an appointment. Why OFII matters after you arrive is explained in our guide OFII and visa validation.

  Official site - OFII - Direction territoriale de Paris (département 75) →

• CAF de Paris - four reception points (family benefits and APL)50 rue du Docteur-Finlay, 75015 · 47 rue de la Chapelle, 75018 · 67-69 avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 (Laumière) · 101 rue Nationale, 75013

  All four: Mon-Fri 8:30-12:00 and 14:00-16:00, Wednesdays by appointment only (service-public directory, 24 February 2026). The postal address is for letters, not visits: Caisse d’allocations familiales de Paris, 75656 Paris Cedex 13. How to claim APL is in our guide CAF and APL.

  Official site - CAF de Paris - four reception points (family benefits and APL) →

• CPAM de Paris (health insurance)postal address: Caisse primaire d’assurance maladie de Paris, 75948 Paris Cedex 19 · tel. 3646

  There is no single address to visit: the service-public directory lists 48 CPAM de Paris points, and most see people by appointment, booked through your ameli account or on 3646. For example, Plaisance at 19 rue Didot, 75014 (Mon-Wed and Fri 9:00-16:00, Thu 9:00-12:00; 2024 data), Batignolles at 28 rue Boursault, 75017 (by appointment), Saint-Martin at 2 impasse Boutron, 75010. Deaf and hard-of-hearing people are seen at the 9th arrondissement town hall, 6 rue Drouot, on Thursdays 9:00-13:00.

  Official site - CPAM de Paris (health insurance) →

Work in Paris: who’s hiring

Paris employers plan to hire 118,870 people over 2026. That figure is for the T1 Paris employment pool, which means the 20 arrondissements and nothing else: France Travail counts the suburbs, La Défense included, separately. Employers themselves call 29.4% of these hires hard to fill (the French average is 43.8%), and only 11.6% are seasonal. The numbers come from France Travail’s BMO 2026 survey, carried out in October-December 2025. They show hiring intentions for the year, not vacancies open today.

Two of the top three rows are the stage. Of the other big cities in our guides, only Marseille puts artists this high; elsewhere the top of the list is restaurants, cleaning and care.

Unemployment in the Paris department (which is the city itself) stood at 6.6% in the second quarter of 2026, against 8.1% for mainland France (INSEE, provisional figures). Paris has 1,811,126 jobs within the city (2023 census): 69.7% in trade, transport and services, 23.4% in public administration, education, health and social work.

Who needs a work permit, how to register with France Travail (online or at an agency) and where people get hired without French: it is all in our guide working in France, and the SMIC and median pay are in salaries in France. We don’t post job ads, but in the chat you can ask which of our people work in your field.

Arrondissements where our addresses cluster

Where you live will come down to work and budget. But if you’d like a church, a Russian school and a shop within easy reach, these are the arrondissements where the directory’s addresses sit closest together, with rents from the same ANIL model as the table further down.

• 15th arrondissementThree Russian-tradition churches in a single arrondissement (rue Pétel, rue Olivier de Serres, rue Lecourbe), the Teremok school on place du Commerce and the Prestige Russe shop at 16 rue Lecourbe. ANIL model rents: €31.72/m² for all flats, €33.49/m² for a T1-T2; no other arrondissement has more listings in the model, 37,153.
• 6th arrondissementThe Russian international section from the Littré primary school to the Jacques Prévert collège, Gymnasium No. 1 on rue de Vaugirard, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic cathedral on rue des Saints-Pères. One of the dearest: €37.89/m² for all flats, €40.17/m² for a T1-T2.
• 8th arrondissementRue Daru: the Saint Alexander Nevsky cathedral, the Holy Trinity parish in its crypt and the parish Russian school on Wednesdays; the Armenian cathedral on rue Jean-Goujon, the embassy and the consular service of Kazakhstan. Rents: €36.09/m² for all flats, €39.07/m² for a T1-T2.
• 11th arrondissementTwo shops with Russian food, Slavmarket on rue Chanzy and Svarog on boulevard Voltaire, and the Surprise school on rue Titon. Rents: €31.72/m² for all flats, €33.28/m² for a T1-T2.
• 19th arrondissementThe most affordable arrondissement in the ANIL model: €27.70/m² for all flats, €30.02/m² for a T1-T2. The church of Saint-Serge-de-Radonège on rue de Crimée, Sunday liturgy at 9:30.
• Saint-Germain-en-Laye (western suburbs)A Russian section at the Marcel Roby collège and at the Lycée international, the Saturday schools ARCADE and Krila (La Maison Ukrainienne), a Ukrainian Greek Catholic chapel on rue Armagis. We don't give rents for the suburbs.

Rents by arrondissement

On ANIL’s model (Q3 2025 listings), a flat in Paris runs from €27.70/m² a month, charges included, in the 19th to €37.89/m² in the 6th, and a T1-T2 from €30.02/m² in the 19th to €40.43/m² in the 4th. There’s no single rent figure for Paris in the official Carte des loyers 2025: the ANIL model works each arrondissement out separately. What it gives is a forecast of asking rents, based on Q3 2025 listings, for a reference unfurnished flat (52 m², or 37 m² for a T1-T2), charges included. It is an ANIL model, not a median of signed leases, and the actual rent for a given flat can come in higher or lower. For a T1-T2 in the 19th, say, the forecast is €30.02/m², with a 95% interval from €23.86 to €37.77/m². Estimations ANIL, à partir des données du Groupe SeLoger et de leboncoin.

The model puts the 19th at the bottom, and at the top the 6th for all flats and the 4th for a T1-T2. Turned into money for a reference T1-T2 (37 m²), that’s roughly €1,110 a month in the 19th up to €1,500 in the 4th, and for a 52 m² flat from €1,440 to €1,970. Those totals are our own arithmetic; the dataset has no official figure per flat. The 15th has the most listings in the model, 37,153.

Encadrement des loyers (rent control). In Paris, rents on leases signed or renewed since July 2019 are capped by reference rates. The current prefectoral order of 12 June 2026 runs from 1 July to 24 November 2026, and at midnight on 24 November the experiment itself comes to an end; as of 20 October 2026 we couldn’t confirm whether it will be extended. A landlord who breaks the rules can be fined up to €5,000 as a private individual and up to €15,000 as a company. One catch: reference rates exclude charges, while the table above includes them, so you can’t set one against the other. For the rental file, guarantors and Visale, see our guide to renting in France.

Buying an apartment in Paris: price per m² in 2025 sales

A square metre of flat in Paris sold for a median €9,677 in 2025, 1.4% more than in 2024. We worked this out from 29,515 sales in DVF, the open database of actual property sales: only ordinary sales of a single flat, no new builds, and the most extreme 1% of prices left out. So this is our sample, not every sale in the city. The median flat sold measured 42 m² and the median sale price was €387,000; those are two separate medians, not one “typical flat”. A one-room flat went for a median €202,000 (21 m²), a two-room flat for €350,000 (38 m²). Houses are rare: 151 in the sample, at a median €1,450,000 including the land. The agency’s commission is, as a rule, not part of the DVF price.

The 6th is the dearest and the 19th the cheapest, just as with rents. Source: DGFiP, DVF (geo-dvf, data.gouv.fr), updated 12 October 2026; the calculation is ours.

Social housing (HLM) in Paris: applications and waiting times

On 31 December 2025 Paris had 205,259 active applications for social housing, and during 2025 9,374 households got a home (ménages logés): almost 22 applications for every one housed. Those who got a flat had waited 49 months on average, and 48% of them three years or more. These figures describe people who have already moved in; they are not the wait a new application should expect.

In Paris the délai anormalement long (the official “abnormally long wait”) depends on the size of the home: 72 months for a T1, 108 for a T2-T3, 120 for a T4 or larger. Once it has passed you can turn to the DALO commission, but the notice to form cerfa 15036 makes clear that overrunning the wait is not enough on its own: you also have to show that your current home doesn’t fit your needs or your means. You apply, and renew once a year, at demande-logement-social.gouv.fr; who is eligible and which documents you need is in our guide Social housing (HLM): who can get it and how to apply. SNE data (data.logement.gouv.fr) as of 27 March 2026.

Getting around: metro, airports, trains south

The city, the RER and the suburbs all come under Île-de-France Mobilités. RATP itself says it runs 14 metro lines, 8 tram lines and more than 300 bus routes (not every RER line is its own), under a 2025-2029 contract with IDFM. Since 1 January 2026 a metro, train and RER ticket costs €2.55 (reduced fare €1.30), a bus and tram ticket €2.05 (€1.05), and an airport ticket €14.

Charles de Gaulle (≈25 km from Paris). RER B trains run every 6-15 minutes from about 4:50 until midnight, the trip takes 25-30 minutes and the airport fare is €14. RoissyBus from Opéra closed on 1 March 2026 after 34 years. Its replacement, express bus 9517, gets you from Saint-Denis-Pleyel to RoissyPôle in 30 minutes on an ordinary bus-tram ticket.

Orly. Orlybus stopped on 3 March 2025, and now metro line 14 is the quickest: 25 minutes from Châtelet-Les-Halles to the airport, 40 from Saint-Denis-Pleyel. You can also take Orlyval to the RER B station at Antony (6 minutes, every 5-7 minutes) or tram T7 from Villejuif-Louis Aragon (45 minutes, 5:30 to 0:30).

Trains south. On the SNCF Connect timetable for 21 October 2026, direct TGV INOUI trains from Gare de Lyon take from 1 h 56 min to Lyon Part-Dieu, from 3 h 03 min to Marseille Saint-Charles, from 3 h 12 min to Montpellier Sud de France (from 3 h 29 min to Saint-Roch) and from 5 h 42 min to Nice. From Austerlitz, seasonal Intercités night trains do the rest: fall asleep in Paris and wake up in Nice, in Toulouse or, on Fridays, in Montpellier.

Climate, for anyone coming up from the South: by the 1991-2020 normals for the Paris-Montsouris station, the year averages 12.8 °C, with 634.3 mm of rain and 1,717 hours of sunshine.

Meet-ups and our chat

The community hasn’t had a meet-up of its own in Paris yet. The barbecues, hikes, catamaran trips and Mafia nights have all been in the South, mostly around Montpellier, a little over three hours from Paris on the TGV. Everything coming up is in Events, and if you’re in the South for a weekend, come and join us.

In Paris itself the chat earns its keep sooner than you’d expect. Which shop has tvorog in right now, which school still has a place in its Saturday group, how the préfecture appointment went for someone who applied a month ago. Tell us which arrondissement or suburb you’re in, and chances are one of ours lives nearby. Joining is free.

See also: All cities · Relocation to France · Titre de séjour step by step · Renting a home · CAF and APL · Directory of churches · Russian schools · Russian shops · Russians in France · Marseille · Nice · Toulouse