New Year - 2025: when it comes in Russian cities according to Moscow time

New Year's Eve is one of the main holidays of the year, which all Russians look forward to. However, due to the difference in time zones, it will be celebrated at different times in the regions. "Izvestia" tells us when the New Year starts in the cities according to Moscow time and where the clinking of glasses with champagne will sound the earliest.

15 hours Moscow time - who is the first to celebrate the New Year in Russia?

Russia is the only country in the world where New Year's Eve is celebrated nine hours earlier than in the capital of the country, and ends an hour after the chimes in Moscow. This is explained by the geographical location of the country, whose vast territory covers 11 time zones. Accordingly, it is possible to celebrate the holiday as many times.

Residents of Kamchatka and Chukotka will be the first to celebrate the holiday. When it will be three o'clock in Moscow, in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky it will be midnight. Also at this time the New Year will be celebrated on Ratmanov Island, or Bolshoi Diomid, in the Bering Strait. This is the easternmost point of Russia, located midway between Chukotka and Alaska. There is no permanent population on the island. Therefore, the holiday will be celebrated by border guards and workers of the weather station there.

16 hours Moscow time - where in Russia celebrate New Year's Eve

Magadan and Sakhalin, including Paramushir Island, the northernmost island of the Kurils, will take up the festive baton. Here the festive fireworks will start at 16:00 Moscow time.

The holiday will be celebrated in the cities of Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsk, Kurilsk, Uglegorsk, Kholmsk, Severo-Kurilsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Susuman, Okha and a number of others.

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5 p.m. on December 31 - in which regions celebrate the New Year

At 5 p.m. Moscow time, the New Year will pass to Primorye, Khabarovsk Krai and the Jewish Autonomous Region. The residents of the eastern regions of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) will also receive congratulations.

Exactly at 17:00 Moscow time festive events will start in Birobidzhan, Verkhoyansk, Vladivostok, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Nakhodka, Khabarovsk and Ussuriysk.

18 hours Moscow time - in which cities the New Year has begun

Celebrations will continue in Transbaikalia, Amur Region and western regions of Yakutia. It is in this time zone that the pole of cold is located, which is ruled by the Yakut Santa Claus - Chyshaan.

Here the New Year will be celebrated at 18:00 Moscow time - six hours earlier than in Moscow. It will be possible to congratulate friends and relatives living in the cities of Blagoveshchensk, Verkhoyansk, Mirny, Tiksi, Tynda, Chita and Yakutsk.

19 o'clock Moscow time - where the New Year is already here

Residents of Buryatia, Transbaikal Territory and Irkutsk Region will be the fifth to enter the New Year. Residents of Angarsk, Baikalsk, Bratsk, Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky, Irkutsk, Sayansk, Zakamensk, Ulan-Ude will be able to make their most cherished wish under the chimes. The New Year for them will start five hours earlier than for Muscovites.

However, during the New Year vacations many tourists, including those from Moscow, come to the largest lake on the planet, Baikal, or wait for a meeting with a Buryat wizard named Sagaan Ubgen, who is among the ten most popular Santa Clauses. Therefore, the chimes for them may sound at the same time as the Buryats and Evenks.

20 hours Moscow time - in which cities celebrate New Year's Eve

Then comes the time of the Krasnoyarsk region, the Kemerovo region, the republics of Tyva and Khakassia. Those living in these regions will uncork champagne four hours earlier than in Moscow. The merry festivities are often joined by Russians who come here to visit or relax on holidays.

You can congratulate at 20:00 Moscow time zone can congratulate acquaintances from Abakan, Krasnoyarsk, Gorno-Altaisk, Barnaul, Biysk, Kemerovo, Tomsk, Novosibirsk and other cities of the time zone.

21 hours on December 31 - where in Russia the New Year began

Residents of the Omsk region will be the seventh to watch the President's New Year address and make wishes. The region is located in the southwest of Siberia and is famous for being the home of Santa Claus and the residence of the Snow Queen.

When Muscovites are just starting to set the table, the region is already in full swing celebrating the New Year. Celebrations are taking place in Omsk, Isilkul, Kalachinsk and Tyukalinsk.

22 hours - where the New Year has already begun

At exactly 22:00 Moscow time the New Year will reach the stone belt of Russia - the Ural Mountains. At this time the holiday will be celebrated in Kurgan, Orenburg, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen and Chelyabinsk regions, as well as in Bashkortostan, Perm Krai, Yugra and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

Two hours before Moscow festive fireworks will be launched in Yekaterinburg, Kurgan, Kudymkar, Magnitogorsk, Nizhny Tagil, Neftekamsk, Nefteyugansk, Nizhnevartovsk, Novy Urengoy, Orenburg, Perm, Salekhard, Surgut, Tyumen, Ufa, Khanty-Mansiysk and Chelyabinsk.

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After the Urals, the holiday will come on the Middle and Lower Volga and its tributaries. This territory includes the Astrakhan, Samara, Saratov, Ulyanovsk regions and the Udmurt Republic. Each region is famous for its New Year traditions and customs. There is also the homestead of the Udmurt Santa Claus - Tol Babai.

Every year one hour before the Russian capital the chimes herald the beginning of the New Year in Astrakhan, Saratov, Samara, Togliatti, Izhevsk, Ulyanovsk and other Volga cities.

24 hours - who welcomes the New Year at midnight at the same time as Moscow

Finally, at midnight the chimes will sound on Red Square in Moscow. St. Petersburg, Petrozavodsk, Pskov, Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir, Rostov-on-Don, Sevastopol, Maykop, Makhachkala, Yaroslavl and Elista will celebrate the New Year together with the capital.

The celebrations will affect most regions of European Russia - Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Vologda, Voronezh, Orel, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tula and Yaroslavl regions, the Nenets Autonomous District, the republics of Adygea, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kalmykia, North Ossetia-Alania, Mordovia, Chuvashia and Mari El. All of them live on Moscow time.

1 a.m. - who is the last to celebrate the New Year in Russia?

Kaliningrad, the westernmost city of our country, will be the final New Year's baton. Celebrations here will begin on January 1 at 01:00 Moscow time - an hour later than in Moscow. At the time when in half of the regions fireworks will already sound and all salads will be eaten, Kaliningrad residents will just start the New Year's feast.

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