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Ukrainian postal codes consist of five digits. These codes are given to all settlements with 500 or more inhabitants irrespectively of post office presence; habitations with smaller population share postal code of the closest code-marked settlement.
First two digits
First two digits of Ukrainian postal code can change from 01 to 99 ("00" combination isn't used at first two positions) indicating national-level administrative units of state governance:
- Kyiv city – according to its size and capital status postal codes starting with combinations 01-06 assigned;
- Oblasts – every of 24 oblasts has several (from 2 to 5) pairs of digits where the smallest one used for postal encoding in oblast capital city;
- Autonomous Republic of Crimea – the same postal codes' system with oblasts;
- Sevastopol – city with special status of national-level governance, where postal codes begin with "99".
Furthermore, individual pair of first two postal code digits ("50") assigned to city Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast as an exemption.
Example:
68 – Odesa Oblast, raions of south part.
| Subdivision | Postal Code (first two digits) |
|---|---|
| Autonomous Republic of Crimea | 95-98 |
| Cherkasy Oblast | 18-20 |
| Chernihiv Oblast | 14-17 |
| Chernivtsi Oblast | 58-60 |
| Dnipropetrovsk Oblast | 49-53 |
| Donetsk Oblast | 83-88 |
| Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast | 76-78 |
| Kharkiv Oblast | 61-64 |
| Kherson Oblast | 73-75 |
| Khmelnytskyi Oblast | 29-32 |
| Kiev | 01-06 |
| Kiev Oblast | 07-09 |
| Kirovohrad Oblast | 25-28 |
| Luhansk Oblast | 91-94 |
| Lviv Oblast | 79-82 |
| Mykolaiv Oblast | 54-57 |
| Odesa Oblast | 65-69 |
| Poltava Oblast | 36-39 |
| Rivne Oblast | 33-35 |
| Sevastopol | 99 |
| Sumy Oblast | 40-42 |
| Ternopil Oblast | 46-49 |
| Vinnytsia Oblast | 21-24 |
| Volyn Oblast | 43-45 |
| Zakarpattya Oblast | 89-90 |
| Zaporizhzhia Oblast | 69-72 |
| Zhytomyr Oblast | 10-13 |
Third digit
The third digit of Ukrainian postal code indicates lower level of administrative units: raions and towns of oblast's subordination.
Examples:
683 – Odesa oblast, Kiliya raion;
680 – Odesa oblast, Illichivsk (town of oblast's subordination).
Fourth and fifth digit
These digits indicate numbers of individual post offices (or individual settlement, in case of a single post office in it).
For central post offices of raions and of oblasts' subordination towns fourth and fifth digits are "00";
For indication of post offices in oblasts' capital cities, capital of Autonomous Republic of Crimea, as well as in Kyiv and Sevastopol, postal code digits from third to fifth used;
In case of the oblast's central post office (always located in oblast capital city) postal code with "000" at third-fifth position used;
For indication of inter-raion communication centers, regional centers of mail collection and processing, railway post offices and other special post offices which are not associated with certain territory, digits "999" used at third-fifth position of postal code.
Examples:
65000 – Odesa city, oblast' central post office;
65029 – Odesa city, post office 29;
68300 – Odesa oblast, Kiliya raion, raion' central post office;
68355 – Odesa oblast, Kiliya raion, post office in town Vilkovo.