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20 Roubles Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Currency | Third rouble (2000-date) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse lettering | К.Э. ЦИОЛКОВСКИЙ 1857-1935 (Translation: K. E. Tsiolkovsky 1857-1935) |
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Transnistria — the narrow strip of land between the Dniester River and the Ukrainian border, unrecognized by any United Nations member state — issues collector coinage through its Republican Bank as a soft assertion of governmental function. The choice of Tsiolkovsky is locally logical: he was born in 1857 in Izhevskoye, Russia, but his theoretical work on multi-stage rockets and liquid propellants, developed largely in obscurity in Kaluga, became the direct intellectual foundation for the Soviet space program decades after his death in 1935.
Korolev kept a portrait of Tsiolkovsky in his office.