Vehicle Registration Plates of Ukraine

Vehicle Registration Plates Of Ukraine

Since 1991, when Ukraine is the independent state, already four main editions of national license plates was.

First system was introduced in 1992 and has based on a last soviet license plate conception, regulated by the standard 1977 with usage a new Ukrainian-lettered regional suffixes.

In 1993 to existing view on the left-hand side of plate was added national flag and UA code under the flag.

In 1995 was introduced completely new system consists from five digits with a dash between the third and fourth digits and two letter suffix. It also includes two-digit region code, situated under National Flag in the left-hand side of the plate.

To be available for driving abroad and according to the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic for Ukrainian regular license plates uses that Cyrillic letters that graphically coincides the Roman ones only. It is the 12 characters: A,B,E,I,K,M,H,O,P,C,T,X). Before the 1995 also were in use the "Я" character. For some types of black-backgrounded plates can be used completely Cyrillic characters.

Some vehicles, like trolleybuses, are not required to have license plates, because they can not leave the network they operate on and can be identified by number that is painted and is given by local public transport authority.