ZAO RITUAL Funeral Enterprise is always ready for cooperation

ZAO RITUAL Funeral Enterprise offers cooperation for funeral homes and consulates/embassies all over the world for the professional transportation of decedents from Russia and to Russia.

There are many cases when transportation of decedents becomes part of funeral arrangement. Every year millions of foreign citizens visit Russia while millions of Russians travel abroad for various purposes. In case death occurs outside the country of residence there is a complicated procedure to be performed to repatriate the body.

ZAO RITUAL Funeral Enterprise cooperates with numerous embassies in Moscow and funeral homes in Russia and all over the world providing varied support in any cases concerning repatriation of decedents from Russia and to Russia.

We offer the following services:

• transportation from Russia
• transportation to Russia
• transit transportation within Moscow.

Transportation from Russia

There are a number of statutory requirements for shipment of human remains from Russia including a set of documents, a zinc container and its sealing, etc. ZAO RITUAL funeral home provides all the possible services necessary for shipment of human remains from Russia to any country of the world. Possessing a separate department for transportation of decedents, we take care of all the formalities:

• collecting a set of necessary documents;
• arranging translation of documents;
• providing packaging for the remains and its sealing;
• cooperating with the embassy;
• providing hearses and specialized transport;
• taking care of customs processing at the airport.

If the body is transported from another city in Russia via Moscow, we ensure cooperation with the initial funeral home which is responsible for transportation to Moscow.

Transportation to Russia

If a Russian citizen dies abroad ZAO RITUAL offers cooperation for the fastest shipment of the body to Russia from any country of the world. Our funeral directors collect the body from the airport and transport it by hearse to cemetery/crematorium (if the burial takes place the same day) or to a mortuary (to keep the body until the funeral day). Besides this, we offer:

• caskets, wreaths and other funeral items;
• hearses and accompanying vehicles (minibuses, buses);
• ordering mortuary services to prepare the deceased for the wake;
• ordering cemetery plots at Moscow cemeteries and cremation in Moscow crematoria.

Transit transportation in Moscow

There are numerous cases when Moscow becomes the city for flight connection. If a foreign citizen dies in a Russian city and is to be transported abroad or if a Russian citizen dies abroad and is to be transported to a Russian city, the flight connection usually takes place in Moscow.

There are three airports in Moscow and if the airport of arrival and the airport of departure do not coincide it is necessary to transport the body between the airports. ZAO RITUAL Funeral Enterprise offers the fastest transit transportation within Moscow. Our funeral directors collect the container with the body from the airport of arrival and transport it to the the airport of departure including proper customs processing.