Issued to mark the centenary of Russia's foreign intelligence apparatus, tracing its institutional lineage to the INO — the Foreign Department of the Cheka — established in December 1920 under Felix Dzerzhinsky. The SVR itself was carved out of the KGB's First Chief Directorate in December 1991, just days before the Soviet Union formally dissolved.
Issued to mark the centenary of Russia's foreign intelligence apparatus, tracing its institutional lineage to the INO — the Foreign Department of the Cheka — established in December 1920 under Felix Dzerzhinsky. The SVR itself was carved out of the KGB's First Chief Directorate in December 1991, just days before the Soviet Union formally dissolved.