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50 000 Roubles
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| In circulation to | 1998 |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents an intaglio-printed allegorical figure of the River Neva — a seated female personification rendered in classical sculptural style — set against a background view of the Peter and Paul Fortress across the Neva River. The double-headed eagle emblem of the Bank of Russia appears in the upper left, flanked by elaborate guilloche underprint patterns in green and pink on the left panel. The denomination numeral '50 000' is printed in large letterpress at top centre, with the warning legend against counterfeiting running vertically along the lower left margin. |
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| Protection description | the Peter and Paul Fortress visible in the paper; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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The 50,000 Rouble denomination was introduced as Russia's post-Soviet inflation continued to erode purchasing power through the mid-1990s — by 1995, what had been an extraordinary sum in Soviet times was a routine transaction amount. This note belongs to the 1993-series design family that Goznak produced through several successive high-denomination extensions, each one a response to inflation that the previous issue had failed to anticipate.
The 1997 redenomination retired these notes at a rate of 1,000 old roubles to 1 new rouble, making the 50,000 worth exactly 50 new roubles on conversion day.