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3 Roubles Sambo
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Weight | 33.94 g |
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| Obverse description | At centre, the two-headed eagle emblem of the Bank of Russia with wings lowered, enclosed within a beaded circle. The semicircular legend БАНК РОССИИ (Bank of Russia) appears beneath the eagle. Along the upper rim, the denomination legend ТРИ РУБЛЯ (Three Roubles) is inscribed; the lower rim bears, to the left, the precious metal designation and fineness (Ag 925), the year of issue 2013 г. at centre, and the fine metal content followed by the Moscow Mint monogram ММД to the right. |
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| Reverse description | Against a mirror-polished field, a high-relief scene depicts two sambo wrestlers in dynamic combat, with one athlete executing a joint-lock submission hold on his opponent after having brought him to the mat. In the lower portion of the field, two semicircular strips represent the boundary markings of the wrestling carpet. The inscription САМБО (Sambo) arcs along the upper rim in bold Cyrillic lettering, framing the athletic composition. |
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Sambo — the Soviet-developed martial art whose name abbreviates "self-defense without weapons" — was formalized as a sport in 1938 under the auspices of the Red Army, though its roots draw from judo, wrestling traditions across the Soviet republics, and the work of Vasily Oshchepkov, who was later arrested and killed during the Stalinist purges. Russia has issued commemorative silver three-rouble pieces for a remarkably wide range of sporting disciplines, but sambo carries particular nationalist weight given its explicitly Soviet institutional origins and ongoing Russian lobbying to have it recognized as an Olympic sport.