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1 Rouble
| Issuer | Bank for Foreign Trade of the USSR (Vneshtorgbank) |
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| Year | 1977-1980 |
| Type | Exchange certificates |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the cruise ship Shota Rustaveli at lower centre, with denomination numeral '1' within a guilloche rosette at right. Cyrillic text identifies the issuing bank and states the redemption value; a lower legend restricts use to goods and services aboard Soviet international cruise vessels. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse largely unprinted, showing only a faint bleed-through of the obverse design visible through the thin paper stock, with no independent design elements. |
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Vneshtorgbank certificates were a hard currency control mechanism, not ordinary banknotes. Introduced in 1964 and revised across several series, they were issued to Soviet citizens and foreigners who had earned or brought in convertible foreign currency — allowing the state to capture that currency while giving recipients access to Beryozka shops, where imported and otherwise unobtainable goods could be purchased. The 1 Rouble denomination in this 1977–1980 series belongs to the so-called "yellow series" of certificates, distinct from earlier issues targeted at different earner categories.
Possession of actual foreign currency by Soviet citizens was a criminal offense. These certificates were the official workaround — and the regime tracked them carefully.