Traffic signs in post-Soviet states
comparison of road signs in countries formed after the collapse of the USSR in 1991
Road signs in the post-Soviet states Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan are largely similar to the Soviet road sign system, as these countries were part of the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991. However, in some countries of the former USSR, some road signs may look different from the Soviet ones. The Soviet Union was a signatory to the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, most of the post-Soviet states adopted their own road sign standards. Many of them use road sign systems that inherited the road sign system used in the Soviet Union before 1991, but with some modifications, except for Estonia and Latvia which use distinct road sign systems.
Modern road signs in the post-Soviet states comply with the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals. Of the 15 former post-Soviet states, only Russia, Belarus and Ukraine have signed and ratified the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals on behalf of the Soviet socialist republics. These 3 countries have ratified this convention on 18 June 1974.
The standard for road signs, GOST 10807-78, was initially adopted in the Soviet Union on 1 January 1980, and remained in effect in several years in Russia and some post-Soviet states after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. However, since 1 January 2006, this standard has become invalid in Russia and has been replaced by GOST R 52290-2004.
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