On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 06:18:43PM -0400, Arthur David Olson wrote:
! # </a>: "...the regions of Western Siberia, ! # formerly stationed in the area of MSK+4, ! # switched to the time of MSK+3, joining the Omsk Time: ! # Novosibirsk Region May 23, 1993 at 00:00,
An article in a newspaper archive (in Russian): http://vedomosti.sfo.ru/articles/?article=20345 (Refers to a resolution of the Legislative Assembly of Novosibirsk Region On Transferring to the Fifth Time Zone).
! # Altai and the Altai Republic May 28, 1995 at 4:00 am,
Text of the Resolution (in Russian): http://altai.regionz.ru/index.php?ds=1326596 (State Assembly—El Kurultai of the Altai Republic Resolution #8-11 of 6 April 1995 On Transferring the Altai Republic to the Fifth Time Zone. Mentions: Altai Krai Legislative Assembly Resolution #35 of 3 March 1995 On Transferring Altai Krai to the Fifth Time Zone).
! # Tomsk Region May 1, 2002 at 3:00 am."
Text of the Resolution (in Russian): http://docs.kodeks.ru/document/901815739 (Government of the Russian Federation. Resolution #246 of 17 April 2002 On Using the Time of the Fifth Time Zone on the Territory of Tomsk Oblast). -- ldv