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100 Roubles Battle of Stalingrad
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Weight | 15.72 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into two contrasting zones: the lower portion features a mirror-polished field bearing a detailed bas-relief fragment taken from the Monument to the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad in Volgograd, depicting Soviet soldiers in combat. The upper matte segment presents the silhouette of the celebrated Motherland Calls monument rising against the open field. A continuous Cyrillic circular legend runs along the rim from lower left to lower right, reading 70-ЛЕТИЕ РАЗГРОМА СОВЕТСКИМИ ВОЙСКАМИ НЕМЕЦКО-ФАШИСТСКИХ ВОЙСК В СТАЛИНГРАДСКОЙ БИТВЕ (THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CRUSHING DEFEAT OF THE GERMAN-FASCIST TROOPS BY THE SOVIET TROOPS IN THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD), interrupted at the base by a five-pointed star. |
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| Mint | (СПМД) Saint Petersburg / Leningrad / Petrograd, Russia (1724-date) |
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Issued as part of Russia's long-running commemorative series marking the seventieth anniversary of pivotal Second World War engagements, this piece honors the battle that ran from August 1942 to February 1943 and cost an estimated two million casualties across both sides — making it the single bloodiest engagement in recorded military history. The Soviet victory at Stalingrad halted the Wehrmacht's eastern advance permanently and is widely considered the strategic turning point of the entire European war.
The .999 fine gold specification places it among the purer issues in the Bank of Russia's commemorative program, which more commonly used .900 alloy for gold denominations in earlier decades.