License plate (Belarus)

Current license plate number,
7 = Minsk city

Current trailer registration number,
1 = Brest area

Motorcycle license plate

The current Belarusian license plates have been issued since May 2004. Most license plates are designed with black letters on a white background. On the left edge is the Belarusian national flag , including the nationality symbol BY . A variant of the German DIN font is used as the font .

Current license plates

License plates for private vehicles consist of four digits and two letters; this is followed by the regional allocation in the form of a further number, separated by a hyphen. A different structure is used for commercial vehicles and trailers, but the area number is always at the end. In the case of a trailer number, for example, one of the two letters slips to the beginning before the four digits. Number plates for two-wheelers are two-line. The four digits appear in the top line, the flag and country code at the bottom, two letters and the region number.

With the exception of the police, military and diplomatic signs , only those letters are used whose glyphs appear in both the Belarusian and Latin alphabet (A, B, E, I, K, M, H, O, P, C, T and X).

variants

For some vehicle groups, special license plates are issued, which differ from normal license plates mainly through a different background color.

Mark	Scheme	application	Remarks
	1234 AB-5	Private vehicles	last digit = woblasz
	AB 1234-5	commercial vehicles	last digit = woblasz
	A 1234 B-5	pendant	last digit = woblasz
	CD 1234-5	Diplomatic Corps	last digit = woblasz
	CC 1234-5	Consular Corps	last digit = woblasz
	1 TAX 2345	Taxis	first digit = woblasz
	1234 AB	police	Letters = woblasz
	1234 AB	military
	1AB T 1234	temporary registration	first digit = Woblasz; The letters BY appear eleven times within the T
	AB-1/2345	Tractors , working machines	first digit = woblasz

License plate 1992–2004

License plate from 1992 to 1996, K = city of Minsk

License plate between 1996 and 2004, M = City of Minsk

The first Belarusian license plates were issued in 1992 and had red letters and a red border. They consisted of four digits and two letters, the first of which coded the area. In 2000 a third letter was added and the coding of the areas slightly changed. As today, only letters that appear in both alphabets were used. Between 1992 and 1995 there was the national coat of arms between the group of numbers and letters . In 1996 it was replaced by a printed seal that reads BELARUS.

variants

Mark	Scheme	application	Remarks
	1234 AB	Private vehicles	1992–1996, letters = Woblasz
	1234 AB	Private vehicles	1996-2000, letters = Woblasz
	1234 ABC	Private vehicles	2000-2004, letters = Woblasz
	FROM 1234	commercial vehicles	1992–2004, letters = Woblasz, no seal
	AB 1234 A 1234 A 12345	various	CD = diplomatic corps CC = consular corps T = technical staff K = foreign media M = foreign banks, companies, joint ventures P = foreigners
	1234 AB	Border troops

License plate before 1992

Soviet license plate from Vitebskaya Woblasz (ВТ)

Until 1991 Belarus was part of the Soviet Union as the Belarusian Socialist Soviet Republic and did not have its own license plates. The approval districts in the Soviet system were largely identical to those of today. The only exception is the Woblasz Molodetschno (abbreviation МЛ), which was dissolved in 1960.

See also: License plate (Soviet Union)

Regional coding

geographical distribution of the abbreviations

Vehicle registration number with the abbreviation of the Ministry of Interior and Defense

Woblasz	since 2004	police	2000-2004	1992-2000	before 1992
Ministry of Interior and Defense	0
Breszkaya Woblasz	1	БН	A xx	A x IA , IB , IC , IE , IH , II	БН x
Vitebskaya Woblasz	2	ВТ	B xx	B x IK , IM , IO , IT , IX	ВТ x
Homelskaya Woblasz	3	ГС	E xx	E x H x	ГС x
Hrodsenskaya Woblasz	4th	ГК	C xx	C x XA , XB , XC , XE , XH , XI	ГК x
Minskaya Woblasz	5	МО	O xx	O x P x	МБ x
Mahiljouskaja Woblasz	6th	МГ	T xx	T x XM , XO , XP , XT , XX	МГ x
Minsk city	7th	MH	M xx AAX , EAK	M x K x HK , IP , РI , PH , XK	МИ x

Web links

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