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50 Tenge Zheltoksan
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts the Dawn of Freedom monument (Zheltoksan monument) located in Almaty, erected in commemoration of the December 1986 uprising (Zheltoksan). The monument is shown in elevated relief at the center of the field, rendered with fine detail against a plain background. The inscription 20 ЖЫЛ appears above or adjacent to the dates 1986 and 2006, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the December Events. |
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Zheltoksan — meaning "December" in Kazakh — refers to the 1986 uprising in Alma-Ata, when Gorbachev's appointment of an ethnic Russian, Gennady Kolbin, to lead the Kazakh SSR triggered street protests that Soviet authorities suppressed with considerable violence. The casualties remain disputed; official Soviet figures were minimal, but later investigations pointed to dozens killed and hundreds imprisoned. This coin was struck twenty years after the event, by which point Zheltoksan had been officially reframed in Kazakhstan as an early assertion of national self-determination rather than a riot.