Vehicle registration plates of Ukraine

Ukrainian implementation of a format similar to the EU format. Both the EU format and the Ukrainian format satisfy the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic.

Since Ukraine's independence in 1991, the country has used four main systems of vehicle registration plates.

The first system was introduced in 1992 and was based on the last Soviet license plate conception, regulated by the 1977 standard, but with the addition of a new regional suffix corresponding to a Ukrainian province.

In 1993, the left-hand side of the plate was modified with the addition of the national flag over the country code "UA".

1995 saw the introduction of a completely new system consisting of five digits, with a dash between the third and fourth digit, combined with a two letter suffix. It also included a two-digit region code, situated under the National Flag on the left-hand side of the plate.

In order to enable drivers using their vehicle abroad, and in order to adhere to the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, Ukrainian regular license plates use only those Cyrillic characters where the glyph resembles a letter from the Roman alphabet; a total of 12 characters: А, В, Е, І, К, М, Н, О, Р, С, Т, Х). Before 1995, the "Я" character was also used. For some types of black-background 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 a number painted on the vehicle and assigned to it by the local public transport authority.

Previous series[]

Between 1977 and 1993, ukrainian registration plates were manufactured in accordance with the Soviet GOST 3207-77 standard. The alphanumeric sequence took the form of: x #### XX, where x is a lowercase Cyrillic serial/counter letter; # is any digit in the range 0-9; and XX are two uppercase Cyrillic letters indicating where the vehicle was first registered.

OK, OH, OC and OX used on registered vehicles driven in foreign countries.

Region identifiers[]

Suffix	Region
BГ	Luhansk Oblast
BИ	Vinnytsia Oblast
BH	Volyn Oblast
ДH, ДП	Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
ДO, ДЦ	Donetsk Oblast
ЖБ, ЖЖ, ЖИ	Zhytomyr Oblast
ЗA, ЗH	Zakarpattia Oblast
ЗП	Zaporizhia Oblast
ИФ	Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
ЛB	Lviv Oblast
КД	Kirovohrad Oblast
КИ, XT	Kyiv city
КP	Crimea
КX	Kyiv Oblast
HИ	Mykolaiv Oblast
ОД	Odessa Oblast
ПO	Poltava Oblast
PB	Rivne Oblast
CУ	Sumy Oblast
TE	Ternopil Oblast
XA, XK	Kharkiv Oblast
XM	Khmelnytskyi Oblast
XO	Kherson Oblast
ЧB	Chernihiv Oblast
ЧK	Cherkasy Oblast
ЧH	Chernivtsi Oblast

Current 2015 plates[]

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  2015 Regular plate

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  2015 Public transport plate

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  2015 Two-line optimized plate

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  2015 Three-line motorcycle plate

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  2004 Regular plate

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  2004 Public transport plate

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  2004 Two-line optimized plate

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  2004 Three-line motorcycle plate

Current plates include a two-letter regional prefix followed by 4 digits then a two-letter serial suffix.

The international vehicle registration code UA is situated in the national-flag-colored band, which also includes the coat of arms, all on the left-hand side of the plate.

The size for the single line license plate is 520 mm by 112 mm.

Two-line optimized by size license plate must be shaped to fit to montage place and could have length 220-400mm and height 110-320mm.

The size for three-line motorcycle license plates are 220 mm by 174 mm.

The size for the two-line scooter license plate is 140 mm by 114 mm.

Issuing of regular plates is done in Latin alphabet order (AA, AB, AC, AE, AH, AI, AK, AM, AO, AP, AT, AX, BA, BB...).

License plates for trailers look like a regular plate but with a suffix with leading "X" and these are issued in reverse order (XX, XT, XP, XO...).

License plate codes[]

Map of registration codes

2004 prefix	2013 prefix	Region
AA	KA	Kyiv city
AB	KB	Vinnytsia Oblast
AC	KC	Volyn Oblast
AE	KE	Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
AH	KH	Donetsk Oblast
AI	KI	Kyiv Oblast
AK	KK	Autonomous Republic of Crimea
AM	KM	Zhytomyr Oblast
AO	KO	Zakarpattia Oblast
AP	KP	Zaporizhia Oblast
AT	KT	Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
AX	KX	Kharkiv Oblast
BA	HA	Kirovohrad Oblast
BB	HB	Luhansk Oblast
BC	HC	Lviv Oblast
BE	HE	Mykolaiv Oblast
BH	HH	Odessa Oblast
BI	HI	Poltava Oblast
BK	HK	Rivne Oblast
BM	HM	Sumy Oblast
BO	HO	Ternopil Oblast
BP	HP	omitted because of BP can be read as Verkhovna Rada
BT	HT	Kherson Oblast
BX	HX	Khmelnytskyi Oblast
CA	IA	Cherkasy Oblast
CB	IB	Chernihiv Oblast
CC	IC	omitted because of Cyrillic "CC" can be read as SS (Schutzstaffel)
CE	IE	Chernivtsi Oblast
CH	IH	Sevastopol city
II		nationwide

Vanity plates[]

According to a 2007 decree, 2004 standard regular plates for private automobiles with triple leading zero combinations or combinations with all identical digits (except prohibited quadruple zero) are recognized as cherished and officially cost from 7,500 to 20,000 UAH (approx. 240 to 640 €). Plate owner can choose any yet not assigned suffix within a region of vehicle registration. [1] All other combinations are officially recognized as an ordinary, but virtually known that some of so-called "pretty" combinations were purchased.

Recognition / Collisions[]

Sofia/Cadiz/Cherkasy

By the order of characters current plates completely repeat current Bulgarian and former, but still valid, Spanish systems. Because of this some plates may not be quickly recognized by nationality. This applies to the four regions of Spain with prefixes BA, BI, CA, IB; and mostly to the five regions of Bulgaria with prefixes BT, BH, CA, CB (Sofia again), CH, KH.

Macedonia also has BT (Bitola) and the same format (BT-9999-XX).

Former Albania registration system had BC (Tropojë), BC-9999-XX.

Individualized (vanity) license plates[]

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Current individualized plate

Individualized license plates are an additional type of plate, available for personal vehicles and motorcycles. State automobile inspection requires a previous vehicle registration with issuing of regular plates before issuing individualized plates. Using both plate-sets at the same time is prohibited, as well as driving abroad with the individualized license plates.

Individualized plates were first introduced in 1997 and included the numeric code of region. From 2004 have been issued plates with no region coding. Current (2007) individualized plates visually replicate the 1997 plates.

Plate-owners can choose Cyrillic or Roman letters for creation of individualized plates followed by some digits. In addition to the characters, plate owners can choose any image to print on the right-hand side of the plate. As far as it is known, this option is only available in Ukraine, so Ukrainian individualized plates are unique in this sense.

Prohibited to use any discriminatory or offensive phrases; any national, language, religious or gender self-identification; repeating the names and logos of official state's authorities; repeating the names and logos of foreign states and official foreign states' authorities; etc.

Regional codes[]

Former 1995 regular plate (still valid)

After introducing the current system, regions' numeric codes were used in some non-regular plates (white-on-red temporary, white-on-blue ministry of internal affairs plates and black-on white personalized plates). ^[1]

Special plates[]

Diplomatic plates[]

Current diplomatic plates is black-on-white, all combinations starts with "D"-prefix followed by six digits. Three-digit group following "D"-prefix is the code that indicates: in interval 001-199 - embassies by countries, 200-299 - international organizations, 300-399 - consular authority by countries. Last three digits is the serial number. Unofficially issues two-line optimize shaped diplomatic license plates. [2]

Former diplomatic plates is still valid. White-on-red plates consists|smaller font three-digit code (001-100), prefix (CDP for ambassadors, DP for embassy personnel, CC for consular corps, S for staff) and four or five serial digits. Earliest white-on-red diplomatic plates (1995) scheme included the same letter prefixes and four-six digits (depending from number|letters), where the first three was a country code.

There were the same scheme black-on-yellow plates for non-diplomatic purposes (F or IT prefix for foreign companies). Earliest black-on-yellow (1995) scheme included prefix followed by six digits (F for a foreign companies, C for foreigners, B for permanent export). In F-plates first three digits was a country code, in B and C-plates - a region code (from 649 to 673).

After 2004 non-diplomatic plates isn't necessary, but still valid.

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  Current diplomatic plate

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  Former diplomatic plate (Still valid)

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  Former companies and media

Military and police plates[]

Military plates were white-on-black, while police plates were white-on-blue. Volunteer military organization plates were colored white-on-dark green.

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  Military template plate

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  Sized military plate

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  Volunteer military organisations plate

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  2004 Police plate

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  2015 Police plate

Temporary series[]

Currently three main temporary plate types exists:

1) Dealers issues trade plate with non-regional prefix in interval T0-T9. There three shapes of this plates: a) for cars, trucks, buses, trailers; b) for motorcycles; c) for mopeds.

2) Inter-district registration and examination departments (MREV) issues temporary plates with regional coded prefix (01-27) if the vehicle needs re-registration in another region or country. There three shapes of this plates: a) for cars, trucks, buses, trailers; b) for motorcycles; c) for mopeds.

3) Special authorities issues temporary plates for an agricultural and self-propelled construction equipment with TP-prefix in "moped" shape.

All of these plates were white-on-red.

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  2004 Temporary series

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  2004 Temporary series

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  2015 Temporary series

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  2015 Temporary series

Diplomatic codes[]

Code	Country or organization	Code	Country or organization	Code	Country on organization
001	Russia	035	Turkey	069	Iraq
002	USA	036	Norway	070	Kyrgyzstan
003	China	037	Algeria	071	Tajikistan
004	United Kingdom	038	Switzerland	072	Uzbekistan
005	France	039	Niger	073	Turkmenistan
006	Germany	040	Vatican City	074	Thailand
007	Hungary	041	Azerbaijan	075	Tunisia
008	Lithuania	042	South Korea	076	Ghana
009	Bulgaria	043	Brazil	077	Serbia
010	Armenia	044	Denmark	078	Liechtenstein
011	Australia	045	Latvia	079	Indonesia
012	Israel	046	Croatia	080	Morocco
013	Belarus	047	Cyprus	081	Jordan
014	Poland	048	Czech Republic	082	Backup code
015	Estonia	049	Finland	083	Luxembourg
016	Reserve code	050	Seychelles	084	OSCE
017	Sweden	051	United Nations	085	Uruguay
018	Mexico	052	Central African Republic	086	Peru
019	Greece	053	Slovenia	087	Red Cross
020	India	054	Belgium	088	Afghanistan
021	Iran	055	Moldova	089	SCTU
022	Mongolia	056	Cuba	090	Serbia (formerly Bangladesh)
023	Vietnam	057	Philippines	091	Albania
024	Austria	058	South Africa	092	Republic of Macedonia
025	Egypt	059	Pakistan	093	NATO
026	Argentina	060	Libya	094	NATO Information Center
027	Japan	061	IBRD	095	IMF
028	Canada	062	IFC	096	New Zealand
029	Portugal	063	Syria	097	Bangladesh
030	Chile	064	Singapore	098	European Union
031	Italy	065	Ireland	099	EBRD
032	Spain	066	Netherlands	100	GDIP (service set)
033	Slovakia	067	Kazakhstan	199	???
034	Romania	068	Georgia	206	OSCE

See also[]

• Vehicle registration plate
• Vehicle registration plates of Europe

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to License plates of Ukraine.

• Full Ukrainian region collection (2004)
• Partly obsolete DSTU (in Ukrainian)
• SAI official information about individualized license plates
• Detailed information and history