[2] However, due to relatively small number of cars, the attempts to create a standardised Russian licence were rather sporadic and limited to major urban areas.

In 1963, when the Soviet Union joined the Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, international driving permits were introduced in the country.

This new style is fully compliant with the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, and therefore is acceptable in all its signatory states and countries.

Driver's licences are issued by subdivisions of the General Administration for Traffic Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and grant the right to drive on-road vehicles only.

For getting the tractorist-machinist's licence applicant has to pass theoretical and practice exam on the program approved by the Ministry of Agriculture.