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 cannot 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.

Old region identifiers

SuffixRegion
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  Zaporizhzhia Oblast
ИФ  Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
ЛB  Lviv Oblast
КД  Kirovohrad Oblast
КИ, XT  Kyiv city
КP  Crimea
КX  Kyiv Oblast
HИ  Mykolaiv Oblast
ОД  Odesa 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

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 220–400 mm and height 110–320 mm.

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 prefix2013 prefixRegion
AAKA Kyiv city
ABKB Vinnytsia Oblast
ACKC Volyn Oblast
AEKE Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
AHKH Donetsk Oblast
AIKI Kyiv Oblast
AKKK Autonomous Republic of Crimea
AMKM Zhytomyr Oblast
AOKO Zakarpattia Oblast
APKP Zaporizhzhia Oblast
ATKT Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
AXKX Kharkiv Oblast
BAHA Kirovohrad Oblast
BBHB Luhansk Oblast
BCHC Lviv Oblast
BEHE Mykolaiv Oblast
BHHH Odesa Oblast
BIHI Poltava Oblast
BKHK Rivne Oblast
BMHM Sumy Oblast
BOHO Ternopil Oblast
BPHPomitted because BP can be read as Verkhovna Rada (Верховна Рада), Ukraine's parliament.
BTHT Kherson Oblast
BXHX Khmelnytskyi Oblast
CAIA Cherkasy Oblast
CBIB Chernihiv Oblast
CCIComitted because Cyrillic "CC" can be read as SS (Schutzstaffel)
CEIE Chernivtsi Oblast
CHIH Sevastopol city
IInationwide

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 (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.

CombinationPrice, UAH
0001–0005; 0007–0009; 5555; 777720,000
1111; 2222; 3333; 4444; 8888; 999910,000
0006; 66667,500

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.

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

Former Albania registration system had BC, BC-9999-XX.

Individualized (vanity) license plates

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).[2]

Numeric codesLetter suffixesRegion
01КО, КР, PK Crimea
02ВI, BT, BX Vinnytsia Oblast
03ВК, ВМ, ВО Volyn Oblast
04АА, АВ, АЕ, АК, АН, AI, CM Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
05ЕА, ЕВ, ЕК, ЕН, ЕО, ЕС Donetsk Oblast
06ВА, ВВ, ВЕ Zhytomyr Oblast
07РТ, РЕ, РА Zakarpattia Oblast
08НА, НЕ, НО, НР, НС Zaporizhzhia Oblast
09ІВ, ІС Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
10КК, КМ, КХ Kyiv Oblast
11КА, КВ, КЕ, КН, КІ, КТ, OO, II Kyiv city
12ОМ, ОН, ОС Kirovohrad Oblast
13АМ, АО, АР, АТ, АХ, IA Luhansk Oblast
14ТА, ТВ, ТН, ТС, TO, TT Lviv Oblast
15HI, НК, НТ Mykolaiv Oblast
16ОА, ОВ, ОЕ, ОК Odesa Oblast
17СК, СН, СС Poltava Oblast
18РА, РВ, РО Rivne Oblast
19СА, СВ, СЕ Sumy Oblast
20ТЕ, ТК, ТІ Ternopil Oblast
21AX, ХА, ХВ, ХК Kharkiv Oblast
22ХН, ХО Kherson Oblast
23ХМ, ХІ Khmelnytskyi Oblast
24МА, МВ, МЕ Cherkasy Oblast
25МК, ММ, МН Chernihiv Oblast
26МО, МР, МС Chernivtsi Oblast
27КС Sevastopol city
28HH, II nationwide

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.[3]

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 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.

Military and police plates

Sized military plate

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

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.

Diplomatic codes

CodeCountry or organizationCodeCountry or organizationCodeCountry on organization
001Not used (formerly Russia, diplomatic relationships
terminated since 24 February 2022)		035 Turkey069 Iraq
002 USA036 Norway070 Kyrgyzstan
003 China037 Algeria071 Tajikistan
004 United Kingdom038  Switzerland072 Uzbekistan
005 France039 Niger073 Turkmenistan
006 Germany040 Vatican City074 Thailand
007 Hungary041 Azerbaijan075 Tunisia
008 Lithuania042 South Korea076 Ghana
009 Bulgaria043 Brazil077 Serbia
010 Armenia044 Denmark078 Liechtenstein
011 Australia045 Latvia079 Indonesia
012 Israel046 Croatia080 Morocco
013 Belarus047 Cyprus081 Jordan
014 Poland048 Czech Republic082Backup code
015 Estonia049 Finland083 Luxembourg
016Reserve code050 Seychelles084OSCE
017 Sweden051 United Nations085 Uruguay
018 Mexico052 Central African Republic086 Peru
019 Greece053 Slovenia087 Red Cross
020 India054 Belgium088 Afghanistan
021 Iran055 Moldova089SCTU
022 Mongolia056 Cuba090 Serbia (formerly Bangladesh)
023 Vietnam057 Philippines091 Albania
024 Austria058 South Africa092 Republic of Macedonia
025 Egypt059 Pakistan093 NATO
026 Argentina060 Libya094 NATO Information Center
027 Japan061IBRD095IMF
028 Canada062IFC096 New Zealand
029 Portugal063Not used (formerly Syria,
diplomatic relationships
terminated since 30 June 2022)		097 Bangladesh
030 Chile064 Singapore098 European Union
031 Italy065 Ireland099EBRD
032 Spain066 Netherlands100GDIP (service set)
033 Slovakia067 Kazakhstan199Bank for reconstruction
034 Romania068 Georgia206OSCE

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Про встановлення вартості номерних знаків легкових автомобілів, виготовлених відповідно до вимог державних стандартів, які мають комбінацію з чотирьох однакових цифр і в межах від 0001 до 0009, що видаються за бажанням власників легкових автомобілів".
  2. ↑ "➤ Matriculas de Ucrania | Todo lo que necesitas saber【2021】↓".
  3. ↑ "Ukrainian license plate" (JPG). Retrieved 2024-01-07.
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