Vehicle Plate Codes of Russia

FAQs

• How do you read a Russian license plate?
  The current format uses a letter followed by 3 digits and two more letters. To improve legibility of the numbers for Russian cars abroad, only a small subset of Cyrillic characters that look like Latin characters are used (12 letters: А, В, Е, К, М, Н, О, Р, С, Т, У, Х).
• What is in a Russian license plate?
  Standard Russian number plates feature black characters on a white background, and the registration number consists of eight or nine characters. In the first section of the number plate, there is one letter, followed by three numbers and then two more letters. Taken together, the letters together indicate the series.
• What country is T on a number plate?
  Current codes