Why Russia’s 11 Time Zones Are a Logistic Nightmare

When it's noon in Kaliningrad, it's already 10 PM on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Russia spans eleven time zones, with a ten-hour gap between its western and eastern edges, and for more than a century its leaders have tried to run all of it from a single clock in Moscow. This is the story of the railway that kept Siberia on Moscow time, the president who tried to delete two time zones, the protests over winter darkness at noon, and why the clocks keep winning. 🎥 Subscribe to Edge of the Atlas for more places where geography breaks the rules. 📩 Contact - blankspacesworld@gmail.com #russia #geography #timezone