1 ruble — USSR (1979) — University
XXII Summer Olympic Games, Moscow 1980 - University

Special facts

A 1979 Olympic rouble with the main building of Moscow University on Sparrow Hills: the tower was completed in 1953 and remained the tallest building in Europe until 1990. The university itself was founded in 1755 on the plan of Mikhail Lomonosov and Ivan Shuvalov, and has borne Lomonosov’s name since 1940.

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: 1979

Other items of the period

• 1965
• 1 ruble (1965) — Victory in the Great Patriotic War Y# 135
• 1967
• 10 kopecks (1967) — October Revolution Y# 136
• 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

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