Vehicle Registration Plate

The vehicle registration plates of the Soviet Union are rectangular plates of black characters on a white background, with a blue rectangle in the left with a yellow circle of stars and the letters CCCP, similarly to other EU Plates. Like most nations, the displaying of a registration plate is required for all vehicles within the Soviet Union.

The current style began in 2014, replacing the 1982 plain black-on-white plates. Despite the Cyrillic alphabet's widespread use within the USSR, no cyrillic version of FE-Schrift exists, and as a result, all letters of the Latin alphabet are solely used alongside Arabic numerals. The order of letters and numbers is the same on domestic government owned vehicles and privately owned vehicles; a scheme of two letters, four numbers, and two letters.

The right side of the plate have three numbers above that indicate the region and/or city in which the vehicle is registered in. Many regions and cities have two or more codes, due to the larger number of registered vehicles. For instance, the city of Moscow uses the codes 077, 097, 099, 177, 197, 199 and 777, while the Moscow Oblast (not including the city) has the codes 050, 090, 150, 190, and 750 (both are leftovers of the interuinon russian plate, that only used three letters from the shared letters of cyrillic and latin) and the SSR's constitutional number in the bottom.

diplomatic vehicles use a scheme of four numbers and two letters' with a similar two-row code signifying the represented country.

Vanity plates are allowed, but are marked seperatley with the word "ТЩЕСЛАВИЕ" (VANITY) under "CCCP"' and are likewise limited to the Latin alphabet.