2 Roubles V.P. Soloviev-Sedoy

Vasily Soloviev-Sedoy composed "Podmoskovnye Vechera" — known in the West as "Moscow Nights" — in 1956 for a documentary film about the Spartakiad games, where it was largely ignored. It won the Grand Prix at the 1957 World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow and subsequently became one of the most internationally recognized Soviet songs of the 20th century. The coin was issued on the centenary of his birth, marking a composer who spent much of his career navigating the demands of Socialist Realism while producing genuinely popular work.