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3 Roubles The Ugreshsky-Saint Nicholas Monastery
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1998-date) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a detailed architectural and figural composition set within a polished field. At the left stands the full figure of Saint Nicholas in episcopal vestments, rendered in fine relief. To the right, a fragment of the monastery's defensive wall extends into the middle ground, while the Transfiguration Cathedral and the Bell Tower of the Nikolо-Ugreshsky Monastery rise prominently in the background. In the lower portion of the field, a two-line Cyrillic legend reads НИКОЛО-УГРЕШСКИЙ МОНАСТЫРЬ, identifying the depicted sacred complex. |
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The Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery, founded in 1380 by Dmitry Donskoy on the site where his troops reportedly encountered an icon of St. Nicholas before the Battle of Kulikovo, was almost entirely destroyed during Soviet antireligious campaigns of the 1920s and 1930s. What survived was converted to a labor commune and later a children's colony. Serious restoration only began after 1990, meaning this coin was struck while the monastery was still actively being rebuilt — less a commemoration of a finished monument than of a work in progress.