The 2019 Winter Universiade was held in Krasnoyarsk — Russia's first hosting of the event — and the Bank of Russia began issuing commemorative circulation coinage well ahead of the games. This piece is part of a broader series tied to that event, the production of which used the same bimetallic-style planchet infrastructure that had by then become routine for Russian commemorative 10-rouble issues, though this example is struck in plain brass-plated steel rather than the ring-and-core format.
The 2019 Winter Universiade was held in Krasnoyarsk — Russia's first hosting of the event — and the Bank of Russia began issuing commemorative circulation coinage well ahead of the games. This piece is part of a broader series tied to that event, the production of which used the same bimetallic-style planchet infrastructure that had by then become routine for Russian commemorative 10-rouble issues, though this example is struck in plain brass-plated steel rather than the ring-and-core format.