Soviet ruble Советский рубль (Russian)
Obverse of 1 ruble Reverse of 1 ruble
ISO 4217 Code	SUR
User(s)	Soviet Union
Subunit
1/100	kopek (копейка)
Symbol	руб
kopek (копейка)	к
Plural	rublya (gen. sing.), rubley (gen. pl.)
kopek (копейка)	kopeyki (gen. sing.), kopeyek (gen. pl.)
Coins	1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 50 kopeks, 1, 5, 10 rubles
banknotes	1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000 rubles
Central bank	State Bank of the Soviet Union
Printer	Goznak
Website	www.goznak.ru
mint	Goznak
Website	www.goznak.ru
This infobox shows the latest status before this currency was rendered obsolete.

3 kopeks 1981
Value	State emblem

The ruble or rouble (Russian: рубль; see below for other Soviet languages) was the currency of the Soviet Union. One ruble is divided into 100 kopeks, kopecks, or copecks (Russian: копе́йка, plural копе́йки). 1961 Soviet Union 1 rouble bill. ... 1961 Soviet Union 1 rouble bill. ... Look up Plural in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Plural is a grammatical number, typically referring to more than one of the referent in the real world. ... The word printer is used to describe a company that provides commercial printing services, involving typesetting, printing and book-binding. ... Rouble of 1961 Goznak (Гознак in Russian) was the Soviet Mint and now is the Russian Mint, responsible for producing state currency, coinage, and orders of the Ministry of Finance of the USSR. Goznak used to combine paper and printing facilities, which manufactured money, government bonds, checks, letters of credit, savings... A mint is a facility which manufactures coins for currency. ... Rouble of 1961 Goznak (Гознак in Russian) was the Soviet Mint and now is the Russian Mint, responsible for producing state currency, coinage, and orders of the Ministry of Finance of the USSR. Goznak used to combine paper and printing facilities, which manufactured money, government bonds, checks, letters of credit, savings... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1300x650, 228 KB) en: 1981 Soviet Union 3 kopeks coin. ... The state coat of arms of the Soviet Union, from 1958-1991 The state coat of arms of the Soviet Union (Russian: ) was adopted in 1924 and was used until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. ...

Etymology

Main article: ruble

The word "ruble" is derived from the Russian verb рубить, rubit, i.e., to chop. Historically, "ruble" was a piece of a certain weight chopped off a silver ingot (grivna), hence the name. The ruble or rouble is a unit of currency. ... General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5, d Appearance lustrous white metal Atomic mass 107. ... An ingot is a mass of metal or semiconducting material, heated past the melting point, and then recast, typically into the form of a bar or block. ... The hryvnia (Ukrainian гривня) has been the national currency of Ukraine since 1996 when it replaced the coupon (or karbovanets), the temporary currency used after Ukraine left the Soviet Union and the ruble zone. ...

Ruble in the Soviet Union

The Soviet currency had its own name in all languages of the Soviet Union, sometimes quite different from its Russian designation. All banknotes had the currency name and their nominal printed in the languages of every Soviet Republic. This naming is preserved in modern Russia; for example: Tatar for ruble and kopek are sum and tien. The current names of several currencies of Central Asia are simply the local names of the ruble. Languages of the Soviet Union were defined as languages natively spoken in the Soviet Union which werent the official languages of another state. ... Evolution of the Soviet Republics from 1922 to 1958. ... The Tatar language (Tatar tele, Tatarça, Татар теле, Татарча) is a Turkic language belonging to the Altaic branch of the Ural-Altaic family of languages. ... Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible boundaries for the region Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. ...

The name of the currency in the official languages of the 15 republics, in the order they appeared in the banknotes:

Note that the script for Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Moldavian, and Turkmen have switched from Cyrillic to Latin some time around the breakup of the Soviet Union. Kazakh, also Kazak, Qazaq, Khazakh, Kosach, and Kaisak (Қазақ тілі in Cyrillic, Qazaq tili in the Latin alphabet, and قازاق تءىلءي in the Arabic alphabet) is a Western Turkic language closely related to Kyrgyz, Nogai and Karakalpak. ... The Moldovan language (Limba moldovenească, ISO 639 codes: mol, mo; Ethnologue code: none), the official language of Moldova, is generally considered to be the Romanian language renamed due to political reasons, in an attempt to fight what the Moldovan government calls Romanian expansionism. It is spoken by about 3. ... Kyrgyz or Kirghiz (Кыргыз тили) is a Northwestern Turkic language, and, together with Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan. ... Tajik or Tadjik (тоҷикӣ, تاجیکی, tojikí) is a descendant of the Persian language spoken in Central Asia. ... The Moldovan language (Limba moldovenească, ISO 639 codes: mol, mo; Ethnologue code: none), the official language of Moldova, is generally considered to be the Romanian language renamed due to political reasons, in an attempt to fight what the Moldovan government calls Romanian expansionism. It is spoken by about 3. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (pronounced , also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages—Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian—and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... // The rise of Gorbachev Although reform stalled between 1964–1982, the generational shift gave new momentum for reform. ...

Replacement Currencies in the Former Soviet Union

Shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, local currencies were introduced in the newly independent states. Most of the new economies were weak and hence all of the currencies have undergone significant reforms since launch that included change of names and denominations. For the details on individual currencies developments and current state of affairs please see the corresponding articles. The rise of Gorbachev Although reform stalled between 1964–1982, the generational shift gave new momentum for reform. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

(*) In Moldova, the Moldovan leu was introduced in 1993.
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