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1 Rouble Chinese Far East Railway - Yakeshi station
| Issuer | Russia › Russian Federation (1991-date) |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Obverse description | A steam locomotive emerges from a brick tunnel portal set against a mountainous landscape rendered in relief across the upper field. Railway tracks recede in perspective toward the tunnel entrance, occupying the central and lower field. The Cyrillic inscription 'Станция Якеши' (Yakeshi Station) appears in two lines in the lower field below the tracks. The design is framed by a fine reeded border. |
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| Reverse description | The central field displays a schematic map of the Chinese Eastern Railway route overlaid on a stylized outline of northeastern China and Manchuria, with the station of Yakeshi marked on the line. The commemorative dates '1903' and '2013' flank the large numeral '1' in the lower central field, with the denomination 'рубль' inscribed below. The upper legend 'ПО лет Китайско-Восточной Железной Дороге' curves along the upper rim, and the same inscription is repeated along the lower rim. The reverse field has a polished proof-like finish contrasting with the frosted design elements. |
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The Chinese Eastern Railway — built between 1897 and 1903 under a Russo-Chinese agreement that granted Russia extraterritorial control along its corridor — left a dense administrative and commercial infrastructure across Manchuria. Yakeshi, a station town on the railway's northwestern branch, grew almost entirely because the line passed through it. By the Soviet period, the railway itself had been sold to Manchukuo under Japanese pressure in 1935, but the station towns persisted.
This rouble belongs to a collector-oriented series issued by private arrangement rather than by the Bank of Russia, commemorating stations along the historic route. Not legal tender in any meaningful sense.