1 Rouble

The 1991 Gosbank roubles occupy an odd historical position: issued in the final year of the Soviet Union's existence, they were already being undermined by runaway inflation and the parallel circulation of coupons and local surrogates in several republics. This denomination, effectively worthless in purchasing power by the time most examples entered circulation, was nonetheless produced in enormous quantities at Goznak's Moscow facility.

P#237 belongs to the last standardized rouble series before the USSR's dissolution rendered the issuing authority itself extinct by December 1991.