Vehicle registration plate is the mandatory number plate used to display vehicle registration signs, and has been in Russia for decades. Most motor vehicles used on public roads are required by law to display them. Having them covered by snow or mud is an administrative offense, which leads to fines. So also cover them with a piece of paper, or other tool that makes numbers and any letters become unreadable.
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History
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The plate format is now
The current format uses letters followed by 3 digits and two more letters. To improve the legibility of the numbers for Russian cars abroad, only a small portion of Cyrillic characters that look like Latin characters are used (12 letters:?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?, ?). Finally, the area number (77, 97, 99, 177, 197, 199, and 777 for Moscow, 78, 98, and 178 for Saint Petersburg, etc.) and the letters "RUS" is included, as well as the national flag (the flag is not used on some of the earliest plates of this format). There are different formats for trailers (2 letters and 4 digits). Motorcycle plates, mopeds and scooters are made of square reflective plates and the format is 4 digits on the top and two letters on the bottom. These plates do not have a national flag.
The standard size for the plate is 520 mm by 110 mm.
Some vehicles, such as trolleybuses, are not required to have license plates, as they can not leave the network in which they operate and can be identified with numbers painted and given by local public transport authorities. Until July 2008, trucks and buses were required to have their license numbers repeated in capital letters at the rear of the vehicle to facilitate identification (continued practice from Soviet times). Some autonomous regions are not required to have flags on the license plate.
Vehicles used by certain organizations or categories of people carry special plates:
Special plates in the above categories never carry Russian flags, except trailers.
There is a special series (usually starts with A) reserved for government officials (eg, A 001 AA usually belong to the regional governor). Number plates for federal government officials have had more flags than regional codes but this type has now been withdrawn as well.
Wealthy entrepreneurs, prominent politicians and criminal authorities often use licensed special license plates (government or police) to obtain preferential treatment from the transport police and as status symbols. Often, these are used in conjunction with flashing sirens. The Blue Bucket Society is a protest movement against this trend.
In 2014, there is a new code for the Russian plate; number 82 for the Republic of Crimea and 92 for Sevastopol. The Russian Federation then officially annexed the Crimea from Ukraine and now administers it as two federal subjects: the Crimean Republic and the federal city of Sevastopol. Ukraine, supported by most of the international community, refuses to accept annexation and continues to assert its right to the peninsula.
Runout issue
In accordance with the provisions of GOST, only 1,726,272 combinations can be issued in an administrative unit. In certain areas, the number of vehicles exceeds that amount, and the combination can not be reused after the vehicle is withdrawn from registration. All this creates the problem of running out of numbers.
The short-term solution is to introduce more code for these areas. Thus, some regions have two codes issued to them, the Republic of Tatarstan has three, the city of St. Petersburg has four, the Moscow Oblast has five, and the federal city of Moscow has eight codes. But this does not completely solve the problem, because the authorities can finally run out of three-digit regional code, and the fourth digit will not match without changing the standard layout of the plate. Since October 2013, when a vehicle is registered to a new owner, registration plates may remain in the vehicle and a new registration number is not required, even if the vehicle is registered in another region.
The introduction of new style plates is being considered as a future solution.
Regional code
The regional codes of license plates from 01 to 89 originally matched the numerical sequence of Russian federal subjects as set forth in Article 65 of the Russian Constitution at the time of standard creation. In the following years some codes are transferred or terminated (eg code number 20 for the Chechen Republic). When populated areas begin to run out of plate combinations, new codes passing through code 89 are assigned to them as well. Additional triple-digit codes are created by adding "1" or "7" to existing regional code (eg 02 and 102 for Bashkortostan or 50, 150, 750 in Moscow Oblast). The most recent new number to issue is the code 198 for St. Petersburg City after code 178 ends on February 1, 2018. Areas with asterisk (*) beside them are involved in mergers with other regions and codes they are listed with an asterisk with the region they are now part of.
Code of representative and diplomatic offices of international organizations
According to the Department of Internal Affairs 282 from 28 March 2002.
Note
See also
- Vehicle registration plate
- European vehicle registration plates
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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