1 Rouble Cathedral of the Ascension of the Lord in Kitskany

Kitskany (Кицканы) is a village on the left bank of the Dniester, just south of Tighina, where a monastery complex has operated since the 17th century. The site gained grim historical resonance in 1992 when the ceasefire line of the Transnistrian War ran directly through the surrounding area — the monastery itself became a landmark in negotiations over the buffer zone. Transnistrian commemorative roubles of this type circulate more as policy statements about territorial and cultural identity than as transactional currency.