Vehicle registration plates of Belarus

Currently issued Belarus plate for passenger cars

Currently issued Belarus plate for passenger electric cars

Currently issued Belarus plate for passenger cars, trailers and semitrailers (small rear plate version)

Currently issued Belarus plate for trailers (rear)

Currently issued Belarus plate for trucks and buses

Currently issued Belarus plate for trucks and buses (small rear plate version)

Currently issued Belarus plate for Motorcycles, Mopeds, Scooters, sidecars.

Currently issued Belarus plate for Tractors, Tractor Trailers and Semitrailers.

Belarusian vehicle registration plates are currently mainly composed of four digits, two letters and another digit (e.g. 1234 AB-5) The final digit indicates the region of Belarus in which the car was registered. The placement of the series letters varies for the weight class or type of the vehicle:

• 1234 AB-5 - for automobiles with up to 7 seats and up to 3.5 tonnes maximum authorised mass, and two-wheeled vehicles such as motorcycles (categories A, B);
  • E123 AB-5 – for electric automobiles;
• AB 1234-5 - for automobiles with more than 3.5 tonnes of weight, trucks and buses (categories C, D);
  • EAB123-5 – for electric trucks and buses;
• A1234B-5 - for trailers.

The diplomatic series uses white letters on a red background, also in a different order from standard plates (e.g. CD 1234-5).

History

Soviet-era registration plates for Belarus carried a pair of two-digit numbers followed by letters in Cyrillic (e.g. 12 34 MББ). Following independence in 1992, the format of Belarusian registration plates became red characters — four digits and two letters on a white background — with the national crest in the centre, separating the digits from the letters

TX used on registered vehicles driven in foreign countries.

Suffix	Region
БН	Brest
BT	Vitebsk
ГК	Grodno
ГС	Gomel
МБ	Minsk (region)
МГ	Mogilev
МИ	Minsk (city)

Vehicles owned by foreign companies used black-on-yellow plates, and the numbers and letters appeared in a different order (e.g. M 1223).

Until 2004, the first letter of the plate series was used to indicate the region of the vehicle's registration, with the rest of the letters being taken from the series A, B, C, E, I, K, M, H, P, O, T, X:

• A Brest
• B Vitebsk
• C Grodno
• E Gomel
• HA, HB, HC, HE, HH, HI, HM, HO, HP, HT, HX Gomel
• HK Minsk
• IA, IB, IC, IE, IH, II Brest
• IK, IM, IO, IT, IX Vitebsk
• IP Minsk (city)
• K, M Minsk (city)
• O, P Minsk (region)
• T Mogilev
• XA, XB, XC, XE, XH, XI Grodno
• XK Minsk (city)
• XM, XO, XP, XT, XX Mogilev

Car registration

The letters used on Belarusian registration plates today are confined to those appearing in both the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.

On current Belarusian registration plates, the final digit indicates where the car was registered:

• 1 - Brest Region
• 2 - Vitebsk Region
• 3 - Gomel Region
• 4 - Grodno Region
• 5 - Minsk Region
• 6 - Mogilev Region
• 7 - Minsk (city)

Occasionally, the final digit 0 indicates that the vehicle is property of Ministry of Defense, State Border Committee or Internal Troops of Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Special plates

• 
  Front and rear plates for cars and buses diplomatic missions, representatives of international organizations
• 
  Front and rear plates for cars and buses of consular offices
• 
  Temporary plate
• 
  Temporary/transit plate
• 
  Taxi plate
• 
  Ministry of Internal Affairs
• 
  Ministry of Defense
• 
  State Border Committee

External links

• Media related to License plates of Belarus at Wikimedia Commons
• Olavsplates.com
• Demon.co.uk Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Where in Belarus does that vehicle come from?
• Pl8s.com Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine Current Belarusian licence plates
• PlatesMania.com A gallery of Belarusian license plates