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20 Roubles Sergei Korolev
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank (Приднестровский Республиканский Банк) |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКИЙ РЕСПУБЛИКАНСКИЙ БАНК ММД 2017 Ag 925 31,1 • 20 РУБЛЕЙ • (Translation: Transnistrian Republican Bank MMD 2017 Ag 925 31,1 20 Rubles) |
| Reverse description | A color portrait of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, the celebrated Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer, depicted in three-quarter bust facing left, dressed in a dark suit. Behind and to the right, a stylized rocket launches against a background of space and stars, rendered in color. The legend С.П. КОРОЛЁВ arcs along the upper field, with his birth and death years 1907-1966 inscribed below the portrait in the lower field. |
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Korolev spent years in a Stalinist gulag after a 1938 denunciation — likely by rivals within the Soviet aerospace program — and was only released to lead rocket development because the state needed him more than it wanted him punished. He died in 1966 without the Nobel Committee ever learning his name; the USSR kept his identity classified, and since the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously, he was never eligible once he was gone. Transnistria, unrecognized by the United Nations and operating its own parallel monetary system since 1992, has issued commemorative silver with more ambition than most acknowledged states.