1 Rouble Eurasian Customs Union - Nursultan Nazarbayev

This rouble was issued to mark the Eurasian Customs Union, the trade bloc formally established in 2010 between Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus — a project Nazarbayev had actually been advocating since a 1994 speech at Moscow State University, nearly two decades before it materialized. Commemorating a living foreign head of state on Russian coinage was unusual enough to draw notice; Nazarbayev's face appearing on a Russian-issued coin reflected just how central Kazakhstan's participation was considered to the bloc's political credibility.