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| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Weight | 6 g |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse lettering | * КИЕВ * 6 НОЯБРЯ 1943 г. (Translation: Kiev / 6 November 1943) |
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Part of the Bank of Russia's long-running "Ancient Cities of Russia" series, this issue commemorates Kiev at a moment of acute political sensitivity — two years after Russia's annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of conflict in eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin was pointedly issuing coinage celebrating a city that is the capital of a neighboring sovereign state with which it was in active hostilities. The series framing of Kiev as an "ancient Russian city" reflects a specific historical argument about Rus' origins that remained deeply contested in 2016.