5 rubles — Russian Federation (2020) — Kuril Islands Landing Operation
Coin Commemorating Kuril Islands Landing Operation

Obverse

Designer/engraver: E.V. Kramskaya (obverse), A.D. Schablykin (reverse)

Reverse

Designer/engraver: A.A. Dolgopolova (obverse), E.A. Tolzin (reverse)

Special facts

The Kuril landing operation of 18 August – 2 September 1945 was one of the last operations of the Second World War: troops of the 2nd Far Eastern Front and the Pacific Fleet took the Kuril Islands. A coin of 2020. The heaviest fighting was for the northern island of Shumshu on 18–23 August; it was one of the largest landing operations of the Pacific Fleet.

About the period

Modern Russia is the money after the redenomination of 1998, when a thousand old roubles became one new rouble. The coins and banknotes of the 1997 pattern are still in circulation. More about the period “Modern Russia”, 1997 — to present

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