Decreasing costs in transport and communications as well as some other often globally significant factors made today´s international trade more extensive than ever before. Industrial products are the most important good of the time we live in and the trade in services, too, is increasingly gaining significance. Companies which intend to join or extend businesses with Russia are in need of reliable logistics partners for those markets, which are still in the process of being established and which place very special requirements on anyone who wants to be successful there. This article provides information on the nature of such requirements, the manner in which German enterprises master them and on what interested entrepreneurs should keep in mind.