10 Roubles Bashkortostan

Part of the ongoing Russian Federation series honoring constituent republics, this piece was issued the same year Bashkortostan marked the centenary of its Soviet-era administrative reorganization — though the republic's history of resistance to Russian central authority stretches back to the Pugachev Rebellion of the 1770s, when Bashkir cavalry formed a significant portion of the rebel forces. The series was authorized under a broader Kremlin cultural program that accelerated notably after 2010, producing dozens of regional issues in bimetallic and brass formats within a compressed timeframe.