There are eleven time zones in Russia from UTC+2 to UTC+12—more than in any other country of the world.
The time zones are as follows:
| Time Zone Name | Zone Abbreviations
(Standard/Summer) | Time difference | Area covered |
| Kaliningrad Time | USZ1/USZ1S | UTC+2 | Kaliningrad Oblast |
| Moscow Time | MSK/MSD | UTC+3 | Most of European Russia |
| Samara Time | SAMT/SAMST | UTC+4 | Samara Oblast and Udmurtia |
| Yekaterinburg Time | YEKT/YEKST | UTC+5 | Bashkortostan, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Khantia-Mansia, Kurgan Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, Perm Krai, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Tyumen Oblast, and Yamalia |
| Omsk Time | OMST/OMSST | UTC+6 | Altai Krai, Altai Republic, Novosibirsk Oblast, Omsk Oblast and Tomsk Oblast |
| Krasnoyarsk Time | KRAT/KRAST | UTC+7 | Kemerovo Oblast, Khakassia, Krasnoyarsk Krai and Tuva |
| Irkutsk Time | IRKT/IRKST | UTC+8 | Buryatia and Irkutsk Oblast |
| Yakutsk Time | YAKT/YAKST | UTC+9 | Amur Oblast, western Sakha Republic and Zabaykalsky Krai |
| Vladivostok Time | VLAT/VLAST | UTC+10 | The Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Primorsky Krai, central Sakha Republic and Sakhalin Island |
| Magadan Time | MAGT/MAGST | UTC+11 | Magadan Oblast, eastern Sakha and the Kuril Islands |
| Kamchatka Time | PETT/PETST | UTC+12 | Chukotka and Kamchatka Krai |
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).
[edit] Daylight saving time
Russia's time zones change over to daylight saving time on dates in accordance with European Summer Time; moving clocks forward one hour at 02:00 local winter time on the last Sunday in March and back one hour at 03:00 local daylight time on the last Sunday in October. Russia does not follow the 01:00 UTC changeover rule for daylight saving.
[edit] Developments
In November 2009, President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev proposed reducing the number of time zones spanning the country,[1] as well as the abolition of daylight saving time.
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