ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses aspects of the genuine USSR drivers license, examines various faults and points of identification found in the forgeries. In 1971 the Soviet Union began a process of issuing a new national drivers license. There were numerous types of drivers licenses in use in the Soviet Union. The 1971 program was an attempt to adopt a standard format for the entire country. The license is totally different from its predecessor. Although the licenses have already gone through several printings, it has remained a standardized document that is issued to all drivers in the country, regardless of occupation. All Soviet drivers licenses are printed by the government of the USSR. From information available outside the USSR it appears that most if not all of the licenses are printed at the official government printing facility in Perme, a city in the eastern portion of European Russia.
