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 ST RK 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Kazakhstan are in many ways similar to road signs used in neighboring Russia and derived from the Soviet GOST 10807-78 (no longer valid in Russia since January 1, 2006), [2] [3] modern Russian GOST R 52290-2004 [4] [5] [6] and Belarusian STB 1140-2013 [7] standards as well as in the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union. [8] However, ST RK 1125-2021 has some differences from its Russian counterpart GOST R 52290-2004:
On January 1, 2004, the Kazakh state standard for road signs ST RK 1125-2002 came into force in Kazakhstan to replace the GOST 10807-78 standard that had been in force since Soviet times. [8]
The official typeface of road signs in Kazakhstan is based on GOST 10807-78. However, Arial is often de facto used on road signs in Kazakhstan instead, similar to neighboring Russia and most other post-Soviet states.