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Case 27: Přerov district?

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Case 27: Přerov district?
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What we know

Date 1991 to 1994
Place
Czhechoslovakia PRE license plate, architecture, Skodas Hranice mapy.com 49.5496380, 17.7349870, 341° maps.app.goo.gl

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Location
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Country Czhechoslovakia solved by @az
  • az Czhechoslovakia
    PRE license plate, architecture, Skodas
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Place Hranice solved by @az
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Exact spot 49.5496380, 17.7349870, 341° solved by @az
Date
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Decade range 1980s-1990s solved by @az
  • az 1980s-1990s
    late 80s to early 90s judging by cars and mans clothes and haircut
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One decade 1990s solved by @az
  • az 1990s
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Year/date range 1991-1994 solved by @az
  • az 1991-1994
    Late 80s cars, early 90s clothes on the man. Other photos of Hranice show trading from boxes in historical center and the electronics shop in old building characteristic of early transition from communism right after 1990

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Iurii March 7, 2026 annotated
This is Přerov district (okres), 1960–2001 system. PR = Přerov (North Moravia). White background with black text = passenger car. The "E" is likely an additional series letter — as the original 4-digit number space (PR 00-01 through PR 99-99) filled up, districts were allocated extended series. So the full reading would be PR-E 90-25, meaning Přerov, series E. That said, if this is from a degraded negative and the "E" is uncertain, it's worth noting that PR as a two-letter code points unambiguously to Přerov regardless — no other district shared that prefix in the 1960–2001 system.

Discussion (1)

az April 13, 2026
Other pictures from the film are also from Hranice, both the shopping row under arches in Zamecka street and "SECOOP – KANCELÁŘSKÁ TECHNIKA" shop in a row of houses. That shop actually pointed to Hranice being the correct location.