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| Issuer | OAO Nizhegorodsky Aviastroitelny Zavod Sokol (Nizhny Novgorod Aircraft Plant Sokol) |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Value | 100 000 Roubles |
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| Obverse lettering | ЮБИЛЕЙНЫЙ ВЫПУСК к 75-ЛЕТИЮ ОАО «НИЖЕГОРОДСКИЙ АВИАСТРОИТЕЛЬНЫЙ ЗАВОД «СОКОЛ» ДВУХМЕСТНЫЙ УЧЕБНО-БОЕВОЙ САМОЛЕТ ДЛЯ ПОДГОТОВКИ ЛЕТЧИКОВ ВВС МиГ-29УБ 75 ЛЕТ ОАО «НАЗ «СОКОЛ» 1932-2007 АВИАРУБЛЕЙ 100 000 АВИАРУБЛЕЙ (Translation: ANNIVERSARY ISSUE FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF JSC NIZHNY NOVGOROD AIRCRAFT PLANT SOKOL TWO-SEAT COMBAT TRAINER AIRCRAFT FOR TRAINING AIR FORCE PILOTS MiG-29UB 75 YEARS JSC NAZ SOKOL 1932-2007 AVIATION ROUBLES 100 000 AVIATION ROUBLES) |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 000 АВИАРУБЛЕЙ Глубокая модернизация, позволила превратить самолет в двухместный ударно-боевой МиГ-29УБТ и начать производство с 1998 года. КОНОВАЛОВ А.Г. ЛЕТЧИК-ИСПЫТАТЕЛЬ с 1980 по 2001г. ГЕРОЙ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ КОЛЛЕКЦИОННЫЙ БИЛЕТ СРЕДСТВОМ ПЛАТЕЖА НЕ ЯВЛЯЕТСЯ ДИРЕКТОР ПРОЕКТА (Translation: 100 000 AVIATION ROUBLES Deep modernization allowed the aircraft to be transformed into a two-seat attack and combat MiG-29UBT and production began in 1998. KONOVALOV A.G. TEST PILOT from 1980 to 2001 HERO OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION A COLLECTION TICKET IS NOT A MEANS OF PAYMENT PROJECT DIRECTOR) |
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Corporate scrip on polymer is unusual enough, but this note comes from an active defense manufacturer — the Sokol plant in Nizhny Novgorod has produced MiG fighters since the Soviet period and was still fulfilling state contracts when this was issued in 2007. Factory-issued currency of this kind typically circulated as internal payment tokens, sometimes for canteen credits or bonus disbursements, during periods when wage arrears made cash distribution unreliable. Russia's 1990s arrears crisis had largely passed by 2007, which raises genuine questions about why a functioning defense enterprise found it necessary to issue its own denomination at this late date.
The polymer substrate is a deliberate choice — far more durable than paper for tokens expected to pass through industrial hands repeatedly.