The agency said the hands of all clocks in the country will be turned back one hour at 3.00 a.m. Moscow time (11 p.m. GMT).
Daylight saving time is practiced in every European country except Iceland, as well as in many other countries around the world to save energy.
Semyon Dragulsky, director general of the Russian Union of Energy Efficiency, said that daylight saving time will help reduce the country's electric energy consumption during the winter by about 30%.
"The shift to winter time is economically justified and very profitable," Dargulsky said. "It does not have a great impact on people's health, but it is economically very effective."
But Mark Sandomirsky, a PhD in medicine and a psychotherapist, said the shift in time could instigate chronic diseases and provoke depression in people.
"The shift of the clocks' arms is not the cause of diseases, but emotional stress can be exacerbated," Sandomirsky said.
The first recorded time change in Russia was in 1917.
