1 ruble — USSR (1980) — Olympic Flame
XXII Summer Olympic Games, Moscow 1980 - Olympic Flame

Special facts

A 1980 rouble with the Olympic flame, the last coin of the Olympic series; the XXII Summer Olympic Games were held in Moscow from 19 July to 3 August 1980. The flame was lit at Olympia and carried by relay through Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and the USSR, and at the closing ceremony the Olympic Misha floated away into the sky. At the opening ceremony the flame in the cauldron was lit by the basketball player Sergei Belov.

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: 1980

Other items of the period

• 1967
• 15 kopecks (1967) — October Revolution Y# 137
• 20 kopecks (1967) — October Revolution Y# 138
• 50 kopecks (1967) — October Revolution Y# 139
• 1 ruble (1967) — October Revolution Y# 140
• 1970
• 1 ruble (1970) — Vladimir Lenin Y# 141
• 1975
• 1 ruble (1975) — Victory in the Great Patriotic War Y# 142
• 1977
• 1 ruble (1977) — October Revolution Y# 143
• 1 ruble (1977) — Olympic Emblem Y# 144
• 1978
• 1 ruble (1978) — Kremlin Y# 153
• 1979
• 1 ruble (1979) — University Y# 164
• 1 ruble (1979) — Monument to the Conquerors of Space Y# 165
• 1980
• 1 ruble (1980) — Yury Dolgoruky Monument Y# 177
• 1 ruble (1980) — Olympic Flame Y# 178
• 1981
• 1 ruble (1981) — Gagarin's Spaceflight Y# 188
• 1 ruble (1981) — Soviet-Bulgarian Friendship Y# 189
• 1982
• 1 ruble (1982) — Soviet Union Y# 190
• 1983
• 1 ruble (1983) — Karl Marx Y# 191
• 1 ruble (1983) — First Woman in Space Y# 192
• 1 ruble (1983) — Ivan Fyodorov Y# 193
• 1983–1985
• 1 ruble (1983–1985) — Friedrich Engels Y# 200
• 1984
• 1 ruble (1984) — Dmitri Mendeleyev Y# 194
• 1 ruble (1984) — Aleksandr Popov Y# 195
• 1984–1985
• 1 ruble (1984–1985) — Aleksandr Pushkin Y# 196
• 1985
• 1 ruble (1985) — Vladimir Lenin Y# 197
• 1 ruble (1985) — Victory in the Great Patriotic War Y# 198

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