Deciphering number plates: Russia

Here, you can see plates using the triple-digit number 799 and, in the photograph used above in the article, 777, both of which are for the Moscow region. Selected Russian regions use more than one two-digit code, though not many of them enjoy this privilege (considering that there are 86 regions and 99 double-digit combinations), so the numbers 1 and 7 started to be added in front of the regional code.