5 rubles — USSR (1988) — Millennium of Russia

Special facts

A 1988 5-rouble coin with the Millennium of Russia monument in Novgorod, unveiled in 1862. The monument carries more than 120 figures, from Rurik and St. Vladimir to Pushkin and Glinka; it stands in the Novgorod Kremlin opposite St. Sophia Cathedral. During the occupation the monument was dismantled, but it was reassembled after Novgorod was liberated in 1944.

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) — 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
• 1990
• 1 ruble (1990) — Pyotr Tchaikovsky Y# 236
• 1 ruble (1990) — Marshal Zhukov Y# 237

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