Registration plates Russian Federation - a special symbolic sign (No.) made (applied) on metal (or from other material) plates (forms) or vehicle(TC) used to account for cars, motorcycles, cargo, special, construction equipment and weapons, trailers.
Installed on the front and back parts equipment (for trailers and motorcycles - only at the rear).
In the Russian Federation, most registration plates are standard plates of the 1993 model, the form of which is determined by GOST R 50577-93. The license plates of route vehicles, military vehicles, vehicles of diplomatic missions, vehicles of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, trailers, construction equipment and motorcycles have a format and / or dimensions slightly different from the standard.
Combinations on standard license plates are built according to the principle - 3 letters, 3 numbers. The letters represent the license plate series and the numbers represent the number. GOST for use on signs allowed 12 Cyrillic letters that have graphic analogues in the Latin alphabet - A, IN, E, TO, M, H, ABOUT, R, WITH, T, At And X. On the right side of the license plate, in a separate quadrangle, are located: in the lower part - the flag of the Russian Federation with the inscription ENG, and at the top - the code designation of the subject of the Russian Federation, where the car was registered. Moreover, the letters are smaller in font size than the numbers.
All used numbers are registered. Each administrative region has its own number, common to all cars registered in this region. The total number of sets of license plates that can be produced for each subject of Russia is determined by GOST and is 1 million 726 thousand 272 (= 12?? (10? -1), there cannot be a number of three zeros).
Initially, only numbers from 01 before 89 , according to the number of regions of the Russian Federation as of January 1, 1993. However, the number of registered cars is increasing every year, and there is a shortage of license plates with valid combinations. For this reason, in a number of subjects of Russia, additional code designations have been introduced that can be used on signs; first, the issuance of region codes from the ninth decade began ( 9x) (except code 92), and then moved on to three-digit region codes. Three or more region codes are used by Moscow (codes 77, 99, 97, 177, 199, 197, 777), Moscow region (50, 90, 150, 190, 750), Krasnoyarsk Territory (24, 84, 88, 124), St. Petersburg (78, 98, 178), Krasnodar Territory (23, 93, 123), Perm Territory (59, 81, 159) and Sverdlovsk Region (66, 96, 196), while Krasnoyarsk and Perm Territories received codes for 8 "inherited" from other constituent entities of the federation included in their composition. 19 entities use two area codes. The first region code starting with 9 began to be issued from July 1998, and the first three-digit code - from February 2005 (in both cases - in Moscow). After the mergers of regions that took place in 2005-2008, the issuance of most of the numbers with region codes from the eighth ten (starting with 8 ) has been discontinued.
Numeric codes used on registration plates, from 01 to 89 initially coincided with the numbers of regions - subjects of the Russian Federation in the order they are listed in Art. 65 p. 1 of the Constitution of Russia as amended at the time of the creation of the standard for state car plate numbers. Full list digital codes is fixed by the Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation of February 19, 1999 No. 121 "On the State Registration Plates of Vehicles" and, subsequently, by the Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation of March 28, 2002 No. 282 (as amended on August 29, 2011) "On State Registration vehicle signs. In particular, it establishes: “On registration plates of vehicles classified as type 1, it is allowed to use the number 1 in the three-digit region code as the first digit of the code.” Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation of June 26, 2013 N 478 Moscow “On Amendments to the List of Digital Codes of the Russian Federation Regions Used on State Registration Plates of Vehicles and Other Special Products Necessary for Admission of Vehicles and Their Drivers to participation in road traffic, approved by order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia dated March 28, 2002 N 282 "new three-digit region codes are being introduced in the Russian Federation. They will start with the number 7.
In 2004, license plates on all types of Ukrainian cars were changed. Now the numbers will first indicate the region of Ukraine, then a series of numbers and at the end an alphabetic series. So, now license plates in Ukraine look like this:
Decryption of this type rooms:
- The first two letters are the designation of the region of Ukraine;
- A series of 4 digits is directly a digital series;
- The last two letters are a letter series.
On the numbers until 2004, the area was indicated by numbers from 01 to 26, but now they are indicated by Latin numerals. In order to know and distinguish, they just need to be remembered. It is also worth noting the distinctive sign, when the place of the letter designation of the region indicates the value "II". This means a national number.
Below is a transcript of the new and old license plates:
| Regions of Ukraine | after 2004 | until 2004 | |
| Crimea | AK | 01 | KR, KO, CT |
| Vinnytsia region | AB | 02 | VI, VT, VX |
| Volyn region | AC | 03 | VO, VK, VM |
| Dnipropetrovsk region | AE | 04 | AA, AB, AE, AK, AN |
| Donetsk region | AN | 05 | EA, EB, EC, EN, EO, EU |
| Zhytomyr Oblast | AM | 06 | VA, VV |
| Transcarpathian region | JSC | 07 | RE, RT |
| Zaporozhye region | AR | 08 | ON, NOT, BUT, HP, NS |
| Ivano-Frankivsk region | AT | 09 | IB, IC |
| Kyiv region | AI | 10 | KK, KH, KM |
| Kyiv | AA | 11 | KA, KI, KV, KE, KN |
| Kirovograd region | VA | 12 | OM, OH, OS |
| Lugansk region | BB | 13 | AM, AO, AR, AT, AH |
| Lviv region | sun | 14 | TA, TV, TN, TS |
| Nikolaevkskaya area | BE | 15 | HI, NK, NT |
| Odessa region | VN | 16 | OA, OV, OE, OK |
| Poltava region | VI | 17 | SC, CH, SS |
| Rovenskaya region | VC | 18 | RV, RA, RO |
| Sevastopol | CH | 27 | KS |
| Sumy region | VM | 19 | SA, SW, SE |
| Ternopil region | IN | 20 | TE, TI, TK |
| Kharkov region | OH | 21 | XA, XE, XI, XK |
| Kherson region | WT | 22 | XO, XN |
| Khmelnitsky region | VX | 23 | HM, HT |
| Cherkasy region | SA | 24 | MA, MV, ME |
| Chernihiv region | SW | 25 | MK, MM, MN |
| Chernivtsi region | CE | 26 | MO, MR, MS |
| National | II | ||
For example, now the Luhansk region will be designated as "VV", and the Odessa region - "VN".
- For route transport
There are two types of license plate background - white and yellow. White numbers will be installed on all private civilian vehicles, and yellow, as in most countries, on public transport.
- transit numbers
Upon receipt of temporary plates, a different type of signs will be issued for cars. Firstly, the background will be red, and the date of issue will be indicated in a special place on the left side. According to these obvious differences, it will be possible to quickly understand and understand whether it is overdue or not.
For diplomatic missions, embassies and international organizations are also allocated special numbers. A series of them always begins with the letter "D". Then the country that owns the representative office is indicated - from 001 to 199, or an intergovernmental organization - from 200 to 299, or a consulate - from 300 to 399. Then a series of the vehicle serial number, consisting of 3 digits.
- special numbers
On government vehicles, as well as for the state guard, the Verkhovna Rada, etc. special numbers will be installed. The digital series will consist of two or three digits and will range from "00" and "000" to "999". Thus it will limited edition, up to 1000 pieces.
All possible types license plates with decoding are presented below.
For vehicles of the armed forces, a black background is adopted, as in many states.
Numbers of cars by regions of Ukraine are one of the biggest mysteries on our roads. Who and why enciphered the codes of our regions, we will never know how not to understand the logic of this action. Fortunately, deciphering the codes is not a secret.
The current format of license plates for cars was adopted in Ukraine in 2004, with a slight correction in 2015, when the field of colors of the Ukrainian flag in the left edge of the number was replaced by Blue colour with a small blue and yellow flag on it. The registration plate bears a four-digit car number itself and two letter indexes before and after it.
Only the first group of two letters is related to the region of registration of the car, the rest of the characters refer to the actual registration number
The first pair of letters just indicates the code of the region to which the vehicle is assigned. The second pair of letters that completes the inscription on the plate is a series of numbers that allows you to expand the number of registrations in the future.
At the same time, only those letters of the Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabet are used that have analogues in the Latin alphabet - allegedly because the car could travel abroad without problems. There are only twelve such letters in the Ukrainian alphabet: A, B, E, I, K, M, H, O, R, C, T, X.
Ukrainian sample numbers 1995 - 2004 determined belonging to the region by digital code. Assignment logic - alphabetical arrangement of areas
Operating letter indices For some reason, the regions of the 2004 sample are not morphologically related to the names of the regions, to identify the place of registration of the car, the codes must be memorized or used in the table below.
| KA |
Kyiv |
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| KB |
Vinnytsia region |
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| KC |
Volyn region |
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| KE |
Dnipropetrovsk region |
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| KH |
Donetsk region |
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| KI |
Kyiv region |
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| KM |
Zhytomyr Oblast |
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| CO |
Transcarpathian region |
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| KP |
Zaporozhye region |
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| CT |
Ivano-Frankivsk region |
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| Kharkov region |
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| Kirovograd region |
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| Lugansk region |
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| Lviv region |
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| Nikolaevkskaya area |
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| Odessa region |
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| Poltava region |
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| Rovenskaya region |
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| Sumy region |
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| Ternopil region |
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| Kherson region |
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| Khmelnitsky region |
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| Cherkasy region |
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| Chernihiv region |
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| Chernivtsi region |
The picture was even more confused by an attempt to “refresh” the indices at the end of 2013, when the first letters in the region codes began to be replaced: A was changed to K, B to H, C to I. But the previous codification also remained.
Series of numbers for "untouchable" owners in different years canceled and reintroduced
Numbers of cars by regions in Ukraine, in addition to the above-described usual for "passenger" cars, there can be several more types - temporary, bus, diplomatic, police, military, volunteer and others. Many of them have their own codification, their own performance variations and their own history, and perhaps we will talk about them next time.
Let's continue a series of articles about license plates. Today we will touch on license plates introduced in already independent Ukraine. After the collapse of the USSR, car numbers of the 1959-1980 model were valid in Ukraine. In 1992, in the absence of others, Soviet car state license plates of the 1980 model continued to be issued: 1) for private cars: a small letter on a white background, four digits separated in the middle by a hyphen and two capital letters(abbreviated name of the region, region, ASSR); 2) for state officials on a white background, four digits separated by a hyphen and three capital letters (the first two of them are the name of the region).
For example an ambulance medical care had the following license plate, which indicated that she belonged to an institution (i.e., not a private motorist).
The new authorities decided not to philosophize and not to compose new numbers, to diversify the old ones by adding the decimal letter "i". In the same year, another modernized number appeared with a flag of Ukraine and the inscription "UA". Its structure was the same as that of the Soviet issue, but the coding of the regions changed somewhat.
On this room, unfortunately, the flag and the abbreviation "UA" on the left side of the license plate are no longer distinguishable.
A table with the new numbers of regions introduced in 1992, we will give below.
| Region | Auto Series | Trailer Series |
| Autonomous Republic of Crimea | CR, MY, MX | CR, NA |
| Vinnitsa | VI, VX | XO, VI |
| Volyn | VN, VYa | VN, IC |
| Dnepropetrovsk | YA, YAS, YAV, AE | XX, JV, YAS, YE |
| Donetsk | YANG, YAM, YI, YAO | HE, YAM, YANG |
| Zhytomyr | IO, IP | HH, IO |
| Transcarpathian | IK, IM | HM, IM |
| Zaporozhye | YAT, YAYA, YAH, IT | HER, YAYA, YAH |
| Ivano-Frankivsk | IB, IA | EY, IG |
| Kyiv | KH, MI | CH, MI |
| Kyiv | KI, XE, XT | KI, SA |
| Kirovogradskaya | EI, EM, EI | Sun, EI |
| Luhansk | AI, AY | BP, AI, IE |
| Lviv | IN, II | XP, IN, II |
| Nikolaevskaya | HI, HB, HA | NK, HI |
| Odessa | OI | OE, OYA, RH |
| Poltava | IX, IЯ | XT, IX |
| Rivne | RV, RN | PB, PI |
| Sumy | SI, SYA, SR | OT, CI |
| Ternopil | TE, TI | TE, TI |
| Kharkiv | XA, XI, XK | XA, XI, ZI |
| Kherson | XO, XY | XH, XY, IP |
| Khmelnytsky | HM, TH | HM, IB, IK |
| Cherkasy | RK, RS, PI | RK, IA |
| Chernihiv | RM, RH | XV, IT |
| Chernivtsi | IC, IE | OX, OI |
In 1995, state license plates of a new type were introduced on the territory of Ukraine. On the left side there was a yellow-blue flag, and below it was the code of the region, which I will tell about belonging to a little later. This was followed by two digital blocks of 3 and 2 digits, separated by a hyphen and two large letters denoting the name of the region (see below).
Although since 1995 they began to issue license plates of this type, for some time old “Soviet” numbers could still be issued, which were naturally cheaper, but they were not allowed to cross the state border.
The sorting of these numbers by region was carried out according to the letter 
area designation on the right. According to this sorting, the regions were assigned serial numbers - automobile codes of the regions. I would especially like to emphasize that although the license plates used only those Cyrillic alphabetic characters that coincide in spelling with the Latin alphabet, the numbers were still sorted according to the Cyrillic alphabet.
| Region | Autonomous codes of Ukraine | Series |
| Autonomous Republic of Crimea | 01 | KO, KR, CT |
| Vinnitsa | 02 | W, W, BI |
| Volyn | 03 | VK, VM, VO |
| Dnepropetrovsk | 04 | AA, AB, AE, AK, AN |
| Donetsk | 05 | EA, EB, EC, EH, EO, EU |
| Zhytomyr | 06 | VA, BB, BE |
| Transcarpathian | 07 | RE, RR, RT |
| Zaporozhye | 08 | ON, NOT, BUT, HP, NS |
| Ivano-Frankivsk | 09 | IB, IC |
| Kyiv | 10 | KK, KM, KH |
| Kyiv | 11 | KA, KB, KE, KN, KI |
| Kirovogradskaya | 12 | OM, OH, OS |
| Luhansk | 13 | AM, AO, AR, AT, AX |
| Lviv | 14 | TA, TV, TN, TS |
| Nikolaevskaya | 15 | NK, NT, HI |
| Odessa | 16 | OA, OB, OE, OK |
| Poltava | 17 | SC, CH, SS |
| Rivne | 18 | RA, RV, RO |
| Sumy | 19 | SA, SW, SE |
| Ternopil | 20 | TE, TK, TI |
| Kharkiv | 21 | HA, HV, HK |
| Kherson | 22 | XN, XO |
| Khmelnytsky | 23 | HM, XI |
| Cherkasy | 24 | MA, MB, ME |
| Chernihiv | 25 | MK, MM, MN |
| Chernivtsi | 26 | MO, MR, MS |
| Sevastopol | 27 | KS |
The next significant reform took place in 2004. So the license plate structure is as follows. On the left side of the license plate was a vertically placed rectangle, horizontally divided into two areas of blue and yellow. In the "blue square" there is a small coat of arms of Ukraine, a trident, made yellow, in "yellow" - in black "UA" - the international automobile code of Ukraine. Further, on a white background, two letters follow in black, indicating the region code, a four-digit number, and two more letters. For the rear license plates of some cars, mopeds and motorcycles, almost “square” license plates are allowed, where the letters are located on top and four numbers on the bottom (for cars and mopeds) or in three lines - two letters, four numbers and again two letters (for motorcycles ).
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that although it seems that the numbers are written in Cyrillic characters, they are still sorted according to the Latin alphabet. Now we have real "bourgeois" numbers.
| Region | Region code |
| Kyiv | AA |
| Vinnitsa | AB |
| Volyn | AC |
| Dnepropetrovsk | AE |
| Donetsk | AH |
| Zhytomyr | AM |
| Transcarpathian | AO |
| Zaporozhye | AP |
| Ivano-Frankivsk | AT |
| Kyiv | AI |
| Autonomous Republic of Crimea | AK |
| Kirovogradskaya | BA |
| Luhansk | BB |
| Lviv | BC |
| Nikolaevskaya | BE |
| Odessa | BH |
| Poltava | BI |
| Rivne | BK |
| Sumy | BM |
| Ternopil | BO |
| Kharkiv | AX |
| Kherson | BT |
| Khmelnytsky | BX |
| Cherkasy | CA |
| Chernihiv | CB |
| Chernivtsi | CE |
| Sevastopol | CH |
| All over Ukraine | II |
The last two letters can have any combination, except for BP and KM, seen as similar to the Verkhovna Rada and the Cabinet of Ministers (which was the case in the license plates of the previous sample).
It is also very remarkable that the city of Kyiv was singled out from the general sorting by the region code AA. But why is the Kharkiv region marked with the code AX in the same way? Or maybe she was supposed to have a BP code that they decided to reserve? All this remains a mystery.
Separately, I want to talk about transit numbers. Their structure is similar, and the main difference is that the "stamp" block on a red background is followed by two digits of the region code (according to the table of regional codes of license plates of the previous sample of 1995 or the designations "T1", "T2", which indicates the fact that the number was issued at the manufacturing enterprise, as they are popularly called "terminators"), two letters denoting the region code (according to the 2004 classification) and four digits. Similar "square" numbers are possible for rear license plates.
