1 ruble — USSR (1988) — Leo Tolstoy

Special facts

A 1988 rouble for the 160th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910). Tolstoy wrote “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”; his estate of Yasnaya Polyana became a museum reserve, and in 1910 the writer secretly left home and died at Astapovo station. The rouble came out in the same year as the Gorky jubilee rouble and in the same number, about 3.8 million.

About the period

The currency reform of 1961 was a 10-to-1 redenomination: from 1 January 1961 old money was exchanged for new money of one tenth the face value. The coins and banknotes of the 1961 pattern circulated until the end of the Soviet Union. More about the period “1961 Monetary Reform”, 1961 — 1991

Coins and banknotes of this year: 1988

Other items of the period

• 1985
• 1 ruble (1985) — Vladimir Lenin Y# 197
• 1 ruble (1985) — Victory in the Great Patriotic War Y# 198
• 1 ruble (1985) — 12th World Youth Festival Y# 199
• 1986
• 1 ruble (1986) — International Year of Peace Y# 201
• 1 ruble (1986) — Mikhail Lomonosov Y# 202
• 1987
• 1 ruble (1987) — Battle of Borodino; Soldiers Y# 203
• 1 ruble (1987) — Battle of Borodino; Monument Y# 204
• 1 ruble (1987) — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Y# 205
• 1 ruble (1987) — October Revolution Y# 206
• 3 rubles (1987) — October Revolution Y# 207
• 5 rubles (1987) — October Revolution Y# 208
• 1988
• 1 ruble (1988) — Maxim Gorki Y# 209
• 1 ruble (1988) — Leo Tolstoy Y# 216
• 5 rubles (1988) — Leningrad - Peter the Great Monument Y# 217
• 5 rubles (1988) — Millennium of Russia Y# 218
• 5 rubles (1988) — St. Sophia Cathedral Y# 219
• 1989
• 1 ruble (1989) — Modest Mussorgsky Y# 220
• 1 ruble (1989) — Mikhail Lermontov Y# 228
• 1 ruble (1989) — Hamza Hakim-zade Niyazi Y# 232
• 1 ruble (1989) — Mikhail Eminescu Y# 233
• 1 ruble (1989) — Taras Shevchenko Y# 235
• 3 rubles (1989) — Armenian Earthquake Relief Y# 234
• 5 rubles (1989) — Pokrovsky Cathedral Y# 221
• 5 rubles (1989) — Samarkand Y# 229
• 5 rubles (1989) — Cathedral of the Annunciation Y# 230

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