Wrong time zone In kazan in summer days you can see the sun after 2 a.m. I've noticed that it's weird for foreigners. The reason why it happens is pretty simple. The city has the same time zone with Moscow and Saint Petersbourg, which is definitely not very logical. There is huge distance among these cities and while people look at the sunrise in one of them others may wait for this three more hours. On the other hand it is more practical that almost all European part of Russia has no difference in time. That would have been more complicated if the government divided the country into many time zones.