New Russian Callsign Prefix System

If you have been on the HF bands lately, you may have noticed that a number of new prefixes are in use by stations in the Russian Federation. Here is a summary of the changes recently adopted by the Russian telecommunication authorities.

• Russian prefixes with the numeral 2 are no longer limited to Kaliningrad.
  Stations with RA2 and UA2-UI2 (with F and K as the first letter in the suffix) are in Kaliningrad;
  otherwise, these prefixes will used in European Russia.
• Stations with the following prefixes are in European Russia: R1, RA1-RZ1
  (except RI1 as noted below), R2, RB2-RZ2, R3-R7, RA3-RZ7, UA1 and UA3-UI7.
• All stations with 8, 9 and 0 as the numeral are in Asiatic Russia.
• Russian Antarctic stations use temporary call signs in the series RI1ANA-RI1ANZ and RI00ANT to RI99ANT.
• Franz Jozef Land stations use temporary call signs RI1F, RI1FJ and RI1FJA-RI1FJZ.
• Malyj Visotskij island stations use temporary call signs RI1M, RI1MV and RI1MVA-RI1MVZ.

How I can find Kaliningrad on air? Main 3 rules. Now Kaliningrad is:

• 1. all Russian U-prefix with number 2 (only prefix UA2 to UI2)
• 2. only one prefix «RA2» (for «R2» see rule 3)
• 3. all any Russian R-prefix with suffixes only 2F and 2K

Also Russian government passed a resolution for a administrative reform.

• R9G Komi-Permyatzkij Okrug (KP) merged into R9F, G — now Permskij Krai (PM)
• R8T Usti-Ordinskij Buryatskij AO (UO) merged into R0S, T — now Irkutskaya Obl.
• R8V Aginsky Buryatsky AO (AB) merged with R0U Chitinskaya Obl (CT) and got the new name R0U, V — now Zabajkalskij Krai (ZK)
• R0B Taymyrsky AO (TM) and R0H Evenkiyskiy AO (EV) merged with R0A,B,H — now Krasnoyarsky Kraj (KK)
• R0X Koryaksky AO (KY) merged in R0X, Z — now Kamchatskaya Kraj (KT)

73 de RW2L