On December 1, 2005 all area codes which started with "0" will now start with "4". The old code will also work, but only till February 1, 2006, so that people could get accustomed to the new one. Why did they decide to change the codes? We have the answer of the Ministry of Communication of
Almost all over the world people dial "0" for international calls, while in
The next step will be changing the emergency numbers, like police, ambulance, and fire department. There will not be numbers which start with "0" now, all of them will be replaced by one number - 112. That is planned to have been done by 2008.
After this the sequence for long distance and international calls will be changed. However, until it has not been carried out, we still need to dial "8" to get the long distance line.
City | Old code | New code |
Belgorod | 0722 | 4722 |
Bryansk | 0832 |
4832 |
Vladimir | 0922 | 4922 |
Voronezh | 0732 | 4732 |
Ivanovo | 0932 | 4932 |
Kaliningrad | 0112 | 4012 |
Kaluga | 0842 | 4842 |
Kostroma | 0942 | 4942 |
Kursk | 0712 | 4712 |
Lipetsk | 0742 | 4742 |
Moscow | 095 | 495 |
Moscow region | 096 | 496 |
Orel | 0862 | 4862 |
Ryazan | 0912 | 4912 |
Smolensk | 0812 | 4812 |
Tambov | 0752 | 4752 |
Tver | 0822 | 4822 |
Tula | 0872 | 4872 |
Yaroslavl | 0852 | 4852 |