Capital City | Moscow |
What time is it? | does not observe daylight savings time (DST) |
Capital location | 55 45 N, 37 36 E |
Capital - history | named after the Moskva River; the origin of the river's name is obscure but may derive from the appellation "Mustajoki" given to the river by the Finno-Ugric people who originally inhabited the area and whose meaning may have been "dark" or "turbid" |
Capital - time difference |
UTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time) time zone note: Russia has 11 time zones, the largest number of contiguous time zones of any country in the world; in 2014, two time zones were added and DST dropped |