The single autumn voting day began on October 14 with the opening of polling stations in Chukotka, Kamchatka and Kolyma at 8:00 local time (0:00 Moscow time), RIA Novosti reports .

In the three easternmost regions of Russia, about two dozen different elections have begun, including elections for the City Duma of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and additional elections for a deputy of the Kamchatka Legislative Assembly in one of the districts.

At 2:00 Moscow time the elections for the head of the Amur region will start. This is the first gubernatorial election in Russia since 2005. Governors must be elected in four more regions - voting in the Bryansk, Ryazan, Belgorod and Novgorod regions will begin six hours later.

In the Moscow region there will be by-elections to the Moscow Regional Duma, as well as elections of local deputies and mayors in 17 municipalities. In particular, residents of Khimki, Sergiev Posad, Voskresensk and Pushkino will elect the heads of their cities.

In North Ossetia, Udmurtia, the Krasnodar Territory, as well as in the Penza, Saratov and Sakhalin regions, elections to regional parliaments will be held, the Interfax agency recalls .

In total, 4,814 elections and referendums at various levels will take place on Sunday in 77 of 83 regions of Russia. According to the Russian Central Election Commission, more than 22 million voters will be able to take part in the voting, which is almost a fifth of all Russians eligible to vote.

Let us remind you that from 2013 the single voting day will be moved to the second Sunday of September. Until 2013, voting was held twice a year: in March and October.

A single voting day has begun in Russia