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2 Roubles N.E. Zhukovsky
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Reference(s) | Y#549, CBR#5110-0016, Schön#526 |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded (195 corrugations) |
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Nikolai Zhukovsky, the aerodynamics theorist whose work on lift directly underpinned early Soviet aviation doctrine, was commemorated here on the 130th anniversary of his birth. The choice of .500 fineness — rather than the .900 silver used in Russia's more prestigious commemorative series — placed this squarely in the lower tier of the Bank of Russia's mid-1990s collector program, a period when the state was issuing commemoratives at an aggressive pace while still navigating post-Soviet monetary instability.