Why is there a СТОП (STOP) sign along with priority signs on traffic lights in Russia?

Why is there a СТОП (STOP) sign along with priority signs on traffic lights in Russia?

10/19/2015 8:58:36 AM

Just one more thing not covered in other answers.

There are two different STOP signs in Russia.

Black Cyrillic words СТОП on white rectangle (as shown in the question) just mean the imaginary line where a car should stop during a red traffic light. Also, if this sign is in the middle of a complex intersection, this means that if you are caught by red light while moving across the intersection, you must stop at that sign and wait for the next green light.

A completely different sign is white Latin letters STOP on a red octagon. It is just the same sign you have in many other countries and it means “you have to completely stop before the intersection and you must yield to other directions”. It is a priority sign, so it “works” only as long as traffic lights are not working, or on the intersections without any traffic lights at all.

5/21/2015 6:10:12 PM

  1. This is a so-called stop-line for the driver. This sign is an informational one, and isn’t used without the traffic-lights or priority signs. By default, the driver must stop vehicle on road-cross near the traffic-lights, so the vehicle does not cross its imaginary line:

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    But sometimes this line can be moved before or after the traffic-lights for the security or whatever reason, like this (wide white line is an equivalent of the СТОП sign):

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    So the driver must stop BEFORE this imaginary line:

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    If there is a СТОП sign and lines on the road, I recommend you stop near the item which is farther from road-cross.

  2. @uncovery is right about priority signs – if the traffic-lights are off, you should pass the road-cross according to these signs:

    • Priority sign (rotated square) gives you an advantage for crossing the road-cross
    • Give way sign says that you have to give the way to all the vehicles who got an advantage compared to you, and you must not cross the line from the СТОП sign.
5/21/2015 9:32:36 AM

Traffic signs are there to regulate the traffic in case the traffic light is not working. This is a practice in many parts of the world.

For example, in Australia, there are combined traffic-light & stop signs that work the same way.

In Germany, the law regulates this also:

Lichtzeichen gehen Vorrangregeln und Vorrang regelnden Verkehrszeichen vor.

Translation: “Traffic lights have priority over rules or signs regulating right of way”

On top of that, if there is a policeman regulating the traffic, he would override whatever the traffic light signals.

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