3 Roubles The Russian Academy of Sciences

Issued to mark the 275th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences, founded by Peter the Great in 1724 — though it did not formally open until 1725, a year after his death. The Academy was modeled on the Académie des Sciences in Paris and the Royal Society in London, and its first members were predominantly German and Swiss scholars recruited from abroad, as Russia had virtually no domestic scientific establishment to draw from.