Russia has replaced 11 time zones with 9 to improve information
fulfillment for citizens.
Russia has separated the Kaliningrad (1 hour), Moscow, Yekaterinburg
(+2), Omsk (+3), Krasnodyarsk (+4), Irkutsk (+5), Yakutsk (+6),
Vladivostok (+&) and Magadan (+8) zones.
The Moscow time zone covers Adygea, Dagestan, Ingushetia,
Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Karelia, Komi, Mari
El, Mordovia, Rostov region, North Ossetia, Tatarstan, Udmurtia,
Chechnya, Chuvashia and Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories, as well
as the Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Volgograd,
Vologda, Voronezh, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kirov, Kostroma, Kursk, Leningrad,
Lipetsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod, Orel, Penza,
Pskov, Ryazan, Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver, Tula,
Ulyanovsk and Yaroslavl regions, as well as the cities of Moscow, St.
Petersburg and the Nenets Autonomous District.
The third zone (+2) includes Bashkortostan, Perm, Kurgan, Orenburg,
Sverdlovsk, Tyumen and Chelyabinsk Oblast, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous
Okrug - Ugra and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. The fourth
(+3) - Altai, Altai Krai and the Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Omsk and Tomsk
regions, the fifth (+4) - Tyva, Khakassia, Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk
Region, sixth (+5) - Buryatya, seventh (+6) - Khabarovsk Krai, eighth
(+7) - Sakhalin Oblast and the Jewish Autonomous Region, ninth (+8) -
Kamchatka, Magadan region and the Chukotka Autonomous District.
