Russia to switch to daylight saving time March 28 | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Russia will switch to daylight saving time (DST) on Sunday, turning the clocks forward one hour at 2:00 a.m. local time.
Daylight saving time was introduced in the Soviet Union to reduce energy consumption by making the most of longer days in summer. Russia changes to and from DST on the same dates as Europe, moving clocks forward one hour on the last Sunday of March and back one hour on the last Sunday of October.
The first recorded time change in Russia was in 1917.”