The key facts
- Darya Vdovik, known for the TV series
Return via Tashkent
Actress Darya Vdovik, known for the TV series As reported by Life.ru citing the actress's own account to the SHOT PROVERKA channel, she managed to fly out of Seoul via Tashkent — a route suggested by an Uzbek airline.
Why the usual routes didn't work
The problem arose in late October: during a trip to Seoul, Vdovik lost a bag containing her wallet and international passport. Searches, police reports and visits to the local lost-and-found yielded no results, and the Russian consulate issued her a certificate for return to her home country. However, using the document proved more difficult than expected: there are no direct flights between South Korea and Russia, and transit routes required a third country. Airlines operating flights through Kazakhstan and China refused to carry the passenger on a temporary document, while electronic booking systems required the number of a regular international passport, whose format did not match the details of the consular certificate. The situation was compounded by work commitments — in early November the actress was due to return to filming. She considered flights via Abu Dhabi and Istanbul, but some routes turned out to be too expensive.
An unconventional solution and a check in Moscow
An Uzbek airline found a way out: at its suggestion, the ticket was purchased using the number of the lost international passport, and immediately before boarding the details were replaced with those of the certificate for return. This procedure allowed her to check in and fly out. At the Moscow airport, the actress had to undergo an additional check: border officers looked into the circumstances of the document's loss and examined the certificate issued by the consulate, after which they allowed her entry.
A similar case involving a passport error
Life.ru also recalls another recent incident with documents abroad: in late October, a tourist from Chelyabinsk was detained in Thailand immediately after arrival because of an extra digit in her international passport — she only discovered the error at foreign border control, although no questions arose when she departed from Russia. The woman was held in a migration detention facility for three days and deported; a new passport was quickly issued for her at home. To resume the disrupted honeymoon trip, she had to buy additional tickets via Tashkent for 200,000 rubles, and the tourist now intends to recover these expenses from the Interior Ministry office that issued the document with the error.
