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1000 Roubles

Issuer Bank of Russia
Year 2004
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Composition Cotton paper
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Reverse lettering 1000
ТЫСЯЧА РУБЛЕЙ
1997
(Translation: One Thousand Roubles)
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Protection description Portrait watermark of Yaroslav I the Wise; embedded security thread visible as dashed line on reverse.
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The 2004 modification of this note — designated P#272B — introduced updated security elements to a design that had been in circulation since 2001. Goznak's Moscow facility has produced Russian federal banknotes continuously since the Soviet period, and the 272 series represents one of the more heavily revised runs in post-Soviet printing history, with suffix letters accumulating as the Central Bank responded to increasingly sophisticated counterfeiting attempts through the 2000s.

The 1000-rouble denomination was itself a post-crisis necessity — reintroduced at this face value following the 1998 redenomination that stripped three zeros from the collapsing ruble.