Time Zones - Russia

Time Zones of Russia

The Moscow Standard Time Zone is now (since 27 March 2011) 4 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time: GMT+4

All Russian cities Time Zones are specified relative to Moscow Time:

Moscow Time

Current time in Moscow Time Zone (Russia)

Moscow Time: Clock showing current local time now in Moscow (Russia Time Zone 2) MSK / MSD

Current time clock  Moscow Time (opens in new window)

Russia Time from 2011

On 27 March 2011 all Russian Time Zones moved their clocks forward to Daylight Saving / Summer Time and this became the new de facto Standard Time.

There were a couple of exceptions: Irkutsk became Moscow +5 (TZ7) (GMT+9) and Ulan-Ude became Moscow+5 (TZ7) (GMT+9).

Russian Time Zones changes in 2010

On March 28, 2010, Regions below changed their time zone.  Effectively Russia Time Zones 3 & 11 disappeared.

All regions in Russia Time Zone 3 move to Time Zone 2, and those in Russia Time Zone 11 moved to time Zone 10. Details:

1. Kamchatka region (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy), will change current time zone GMT+12, MSK+9 to current Magadan Time Zone (GMT+11, MSK+8)
2. Chukotka region (Chukotskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug, Anadyr), will change current time zone GMT+12, MSK+9 to current Magadan Time Zone (GMT+11, MSK+8)
3. Udmurt Republic (Udmurtia, Izhevsk) will change time zone GMT+4, MSK+1 to Moscow Time Zone (GMT+3, MSK)
4. Samara oblast (Samara) will change time zone GMT+4, MSK+1 to Moscow Time Zone (GMT+3, MSK)
5. Kemerovo oblast (Kemerovo) will change time zone GMT+7, MSK+4 to Novosibirsk Time Zone (GMT+6, MSK+3) (previous approval for Kemerovo region)

Sources:

Prime Minister of Russia V. Putin signed a Government Decrees № 170 and № 171
"On the application in the territory of the Kamchatka region and the Chukotka utonomous District of time the tenth time zone"
and
"On the application in the territory of Samara region second time zone"
http://premier.gov.ru/events/messages/9864/ (in Russian)
http://premier.gov.ru/events/messages/9863/ (in Russian)

Russia Standard Time Zones

The Russia Standard Time Zones are as follows:

The only federal subjects to be in more than one time zone are the Sakha Republic, which is separated into areas which observe the Yakutsk, Vladivostok and Magadan time zones, and Sakhalin Oblast, which is in the Vladivostok (island Sakhalin) and Magadan time zones (Kuril Islands).