  Using the light-cone QCD dipole formalism we investigate manifestations of
color transparency (CT) and coherence length (CL) effects in electroproduction
of longitudinally (L) and transversally (T) polarized vector mesons. Motivated
by forthcoming data from the HERMES experiment we predict both the A and Q^2
dependence of the L/T- ratios, for rho^0 mesons produced coherently and
incoherently off nuclei. For an incoherent reaction the CT and CL effects add
up and result in a monotonic A dependence of the L/T-ratio at different values
of Q^2. On the contrary, for a coherent process the contraction of the CL with
Q^2 causes an effect opposite to that of CT and we expect quite a nontrivial A
dependence, especially at Q^2 >> m_V^2.
