Road_signs_in_Kazakhstan
Road signs in Kazakhstan are similar to the road sign system of other post-Soviet states that ensure that transport vehicles move safely and orderly, as well as to inform the participants of traffic built-in graphic icons. These icons are governed by the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic and Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals. Road signs are regulated by the СТ РК 1125-2021 standard.[1]
Road signs in Kazakhstan are in many ways similar to road signs used in neighboring Russia and derived from the Soviet ГОСТ 10807-78 (no longer valid in Russia since January 1, 2006),[2][3] modern Russian ГОСТ Р 52290-2004[4][5][6] and Belarusian СТБ 1140-2013[7] standards as well as in the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union.[8] However, СТ РК 1125-2021 has some differences from its Russian counterpart ГОСТ Р 52290-2004:
- Inscriptions on road signs are written in Kazakh and/or Russian in accordance with the official languages of Kazakhstan. Due to the fact that since 2017 Kazakhstan is preparing to switch from Cyrillic to Latin script, inscriptions on road signs in Kazakh, including the settlement names, may be written in Latin script instead of Cyrillic one;[9]
- Number of categories: While Russia has 8 categories of road signs according to ГОСТ Р 52290-2004, Kazakhstan has 7 categories. This is due to the fact that road signs in the Soviet Union were divided into 7 categories in accordance with ГОСТ 10807-78, and this division was preserved in most post-Soviet states after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, namely the Commonwealth of Independent States countries, Georgia and Ukraine;
- Presence of road signs specific for Kazakhstan but not used in Russia and any other post-Soviet states.
On January 1, 2004, the Kazakh state standard for road signs СТ РК 1125-2002 came into force in Kazakhstan to replace the ГОСТ 10807-78 standard that had been in force since Soviet times.[8]
Road signs are divided into 7 categories:
The official typeface of road signs in Kazakhstan is based on ГОСТ 10807-78. However, Arial is often de facto used on road signs in Kazakhstan instead of one based on the ГОСТ 10807-78, similar to neighboring Russia and most other post-Soviet states.
