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100 Roubles Nizhny Novgorod Aircraft Plant
| Issuer | OAO Nizhegorodsky Aviastroitelny Zavod Sokol (Nizhny Novgorod Aircraft Plant Sokol) |
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| Year | 2007 |
| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a photographic image of the Lavochkin LA-7 fighter aircraft (1944) set within a rectangular frame against a light guilloche underprint. To the left, large Cyrillic legends read 'ЛА-7' and '75 ЛЕТ' with the plant name and founding dates '1932–2007'; to the upper right, an inscribed text panel notes the aircraft as one of the finest fighters of the Great Patriotic War. At right, an oval medallion with ornate guilloche border carries the denomination '100 АВИАРУБЛЕЙ', while at lower centre a decorative banderole cartouche repeats '100 АВИАРУБЛЕЙ'. The Nizhny Novgorod coat of arms (stag on a red field) appears at upper right alongside a serial number. |
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| Reverse description | Portrait of plant director S.I. Agadzhanov at centre, accompanied by pilots of the 'Valeriy Chkalov' squadron, with a Lavochkin LA-7 aircraft vignette to the left. Inscriptions record the workers' personal financial contribution of 1,250,000 roubles toward construction of the squadron's aircraft, and detail Agadzhanov's tenure as plant director from 1942 to 1952. A disclaimer cartouche states that the note is a collectible ticket and not a means of payment. |
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Russian factory scrip on polymer is unusual enough, but this note comes from a genuinely significant industrial issuer: the Sokol plant in Nizhny Novgorod has produced MiG fighters since the Soviet period and remained one of Russia's primary combat aircraft manufacturers into the post-Soviet decades. The scrip was almost certainly issued for internal canteen or enterprise store use — a practice that quietly persisted in Russian heavy industry well after the Soviet collapse, particularly in closed or semi-closed defense enterprises where the workforce was large and geographically concentrated.
Polymer substrate for factory scrip at this denomination is rare; most Russian enterprise notes of the 2000s used paper.