5 rubles — USSR (1987) — October Revolution

Special facts

The 1987 5 roubles for the 70th anniversary of the October Revolution began the issue of Soviet commemorative 5-rouble coins. It was issued in about 1.3 million, and in 1988–1991 the 5-rouble coins showed architectural monuments, from the Bronze Horseman to the Matenadaran. There were as yet no regular 5-rouble coins in the USSR.

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: 1987

Other items of the period

• 1984
• 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
• 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

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