About the 11 zones of Russia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Russia currently has eleven time zones:
Time zone name | UTC offset | MSKoffset | Area covered | Population |
---|---|---|---|---|
Kaliningrad Time | UTC+02 | MSK–1 | Kaliningrad Oblast | 969,000 |
Moscow Time | UTC+03 | MSK | Most of European Russia (excluding federal subjects in UTC+02, UTC+04 and UTC+05 time zones) | 89,282,000 |
Samara Time | UTC+04 | MSK+1 | Astrakhan Oblast, Samara Oblast, Saratov Oblast, Udmurtia and Ulyanovsk Oblast | 9,507,000 |
Yekaterinburg Time | UTC+05 | MSK+2 | Bashkortostan, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug,Kurgan Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, Perm Krai, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Tyumen Oblast and Yamalia | 20,986,000 |
Omsk Time | UTC+06 | MSK+3 | Omsk Oblast | 1,978,000 |
Krasnoyarsk Time | UTC+07 | MSK+4 | Altai Krai, Altai Republic, Kemerovo Oblast, Khakassia, Krasnoyarsk Krai,Novosibirsk Oblast, Tomsk Oblast and Tuva | 12,854,000 |
Irkutsk Time | UTC+08 | MSK+5 | Irkutsk Oblast and Buryatia | 3,393,000 |
Yakutsk Time | UTC+09 | MSK+6 | Amur Oblast, Zabaykalsky Krai and most of the Sakha Republic (excluding districts in UTC+10 and UTC+11 time zones) | 2,794,000 |
Vladivostok Time | UTC+10 | MSK+7 | Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Primorsky Krai, and theOymyakonsky, Ust-Yansky and Verkhoyansky districts of the Sakha Republic | 3,471,000 |
Magadan Time | UTC+11 | MSK+8 | Magadan Oblast, Sakhalin Oblast, and the Abyysky, Allaikhovsky, Momsky,Nizhnekolymsky, Srednekolymsky and Verkhnekolymsky districts of the Sakha Republic | 665,000 |
Kamchatka Time | UTC+12 | MSK+9 | Chukotka and Kamchatka Krai | 368,000 |
Daylight saving time (DST) is no longer observed in Russia but it was used from when it was part of the Soviet Union until 2011, then President Dmitry Medvedev announced on February 8, 2011, that summer time will be used all year, leaving Moscow Time on UTC+4 year round.[1]
On 22 July 2014, Another bill was re-introduced, forcing all Russian time zones to move an hour back, and Moscow Time is now on UTC+3 on October 26, 2014. However, the
More time changes occurred in 2016. On March 27, several times were changed:
On April 24, another time zone was changed:
On July 24, another time zone was changed:
And, on December 4, another time zone was changed:
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