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50 Roubles Himalayan Bear
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Value | 50 Roubles (50 RUR) |
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| Edge | Segmented reeded: twelve sections with ten corrugations each |
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| Mintage | 1993 ЛМД - - 300,000 |
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This piece belongs to Russia's Red Book series, launched in 1993 to commemorate endangered species listed in the Soviet-era Red Data Book — a program that continued even as the federation itself was still reorganizing its monetary and governmental institutions following the 1991 collapse. The bimetallic format was a deliberate choice to deter counterfeiting at a moment when Russian currency infrastructure was under considerable strain.
The Himalayan bear (*Ursus thibetanus*) population in Russia is confined almost entirely to the Primorsky Krai region of the far east, where habitat pressure from logging has remained a documented concern since the 1980s.