A graphical symbol of the Russian currency will appear on the Russian banknotes in 2015. The graphic chosen in a vote on the Central Bank of Russia website in 2013 uses the Cyrillic letter “P” with its lower part crossed by a horizontal strip. How the Russian currency changed - in photo gallery by TASS
Ruble symbol: Russian currency transformation
A graphical symbol of the Russian national currency will appear on the ruble banknotes in 2015
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Money for Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1980
© Fotokhronika TASS/Valeriy Khristoforov, Alexandr Chumichev 50 and 100 ruble notes a year before the monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1990
© Fotokhronika TASS/Stanislav Panov Collecting money for travel on metro, 1977
© Fotokhronika TASS/Roman Denisov Sale of cigarettes during tobacco crisis, 1990
© Fotokhronika TASS/V. Aleshkevich In 1991 the exchange of 50 and 100-ruble notes took place. Photo: Inflated currency notes
© Fotokhronika TASS/Sergei Mamontov 22 January 1991 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed the decree about the withdrawal of 50- and 100-ruble notes issued in 1961. Photo: People in the bank the next day after the decree
© ITAR-TASS Payments for vouchers in Moscow, 1992
© ITAR-TASS Gypsy boy begging at Kiev railway station in Moscow, 1996
© Alexei Druzhinin/ITAR-TASS Receiving a pension at the post office, 2014
© ITAR-TASS/Alexei Pavlishak 10 ruble coin with the image of the monument to the sunken ships in Crimea, 2014
© Artyom Geodakyan/TASS Employees of Goznak (Russian enterprise responsible for the production of coins and bank notes) printing factory in Perm packing 1000 ruble notes
© Vladimir Smirnov/TASS Participants of the Winter SaniDay 2015 in the park on Yelagin island in Saint Petersburg, 2015
© Ruslan Shamukov/TASS