Date and time notation in Russia

In Russia, dates are usually written in "day month year" (DMY) order.

In Russia, dates are usually written in "day month year" (DMY) order.

Coincidentally, in Polish the word for year is "rok", so a similar date format is used by the Poles e.g. 1987r).

When saying the date, it is usually pronounced using the ordinal number of the day first (in neutral grammatical gender), then the month in genitive case (for example "Двадцать восьмое августа").

Until the final years of Peter the Great in the early 1720s, Russia used Cyrillic numerals to denote dates on coins.