Moscow

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1. Story
2. Western terminus of the Trans-Siberian and, for more than a century, the reference clock of the entire Russian railway network. Long-distance trains across eight time zones were timetabled, ticketed and announced in Moscow time regardless of where the passenger stood — so a traveller boarding at Vladivostok read a departure seven hours out of step with the daylight outside the window. Russian Railways ended the practice on 1 August 2018, moving station clocks, boards, announcements and tickets to local time. It is the sharpest illustration in this Journey of a timetable as an instrument of administration rather than of travel.
3. Knowledge
4. Moscow
5. Connections
6. Warsaw Treaty Organization
7. SALT I and the ABM Treaty are signed in Moscow
8. Trans-Siberian Railway
9. Yaroslavsky Station, Moscow
10. Russian Railways abandons Moscow time across the network
11. Evidence
12. Reports that from 1 August 2018 all Russian Railways station boards, clocks, announcements and tickets for long-distance trains use local time, ending a century-old convention, and gives Vladivostok as seven hours ahead of Moscow. V55 verification basis: the report's substance was carried in an attributed search result; the article page was not fetched.
13. Gives the Moscow–Vladivostok distance as 9,288 km (5,771 miles), the world's longest single rail system, inaugurated 1891 and completed in sections to 1916, with electrification finished in 2002. V55 verification basis: the substance was carried in an attributed search result naming Britannica; the page itself could not be fetched, as britannica.com is refused by this environment's egress proxy.