“Architectural Monuments (USSR five roubles)” series

In the catalogue: commemorative coins — 12.

Large copper-nickel five-rouble coins of 1988–1991 with architectural monuments of different Soviet republics, from Saint Basil’s Cathedral and Peterhof to the Matenadaran in Yerevan and Samarkand.

The twelve coins came out three a year. The first set of 1988 shows Saint Sophia’s Cathedral in Kiev, the Millennium of Russia monument in Novgorod and the Bronze Horseman in Leningrad; the last, of 1991, shows the Archangel Cathedral, the State Bank building and the monument to David of Sasun.