Road signs in the Soviet Union

Road signs in the Soviet Union were regulated in the ГОСТ 10807-78 standard which was introduced on 1 January 1980.

The shapes and colors of road signs in the Soviet Union, and now in all post-Soviet states, fully comply with the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, to which the Soviet Union was originally a signatory.

On 8 November 1968, the Soviet Union signed the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, and on 7 June 1974 ratified it with some declarations and reservations made upon ratification.

The galleries shown below do not show road signs that were included in the ГОСТ 10807-78 standard after 1991.

The vast majority of road signs shown below are still used in post-Soviet states such as Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan but with some modifications in design.

A Soviet-era road sign in Lithuania during the Baltic Way in 1989. The names of settlements are written in large font size in Lithuanian ( Latin script ), and in smaller font size in Russian ( Cyrillic script ).