1 ruble — USSR (1989) — Taras Shevchenko

Special facts

A 1989 rouble for the 175th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861), a classic of Ukrainian literature. Shevchenko was born a serf; he was bought out of serfdom in 1838 with money from a lottery of Karl Bryullov’s portrait of Zhukovsky, and his main collection is “Kobzar”. He is buried at Kaniv on the Dnieper; the rouble’s mintage was about 2.7 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: 1989

Other items of the period

• 1987
• 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
• 1990
• 1 ruble (1990) — Pyotr Tchaikovsky Y# 236
• 1 ruble (1990) — Marshal Zhukov Y# 237
• 1 ruble (1990) — Anton Chekhov Y# 240
• 1 ruble (1990) — Janis Rainis Y# 257
• 1 ruble (1990) — Francisk Scorina Y# 258
• 1990–1991
• 1 ruble (1990–1991) — Alisher Navoi Y# 260
• 1 ruble (1990–1991) — Pyotr Lebedev Y# 261
• 1990
• 5 rubles (1990) — The Grand Palace in Peterhof Y# 241

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