20 Roubles A tank attack

Issued as part of Russia's sprawling 50th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War series, this piece commemorates the armored offensives that Soviet doctrine elevated to near-mythological status in postwar military historiography. The T-34, backbone of those campaigns, had been manufactured in quantities exceeding any other tank in history by 1945 — a production feat achieved partly by stripping the design of features Soviet engineers considered non-essential to killing Germans.

The series ran to dozens of types across multiple metals and denominations, making complete sets genuinely difficult to assemble.