Country : RUSSIA
Year 2014
Face value : 100 rubles
Reason : Sochi Winter Games
Size : 150*65mm
ND© The Central Bank of the Russian Federation issued a 100 banknote
Olympic rubles next October, 100 days before the start of
the XXII Winter Olympic Games that will take place in the town
Russian Federation of Sochi, as reported on March 12 by the first
Vice President of the Bank, Georgy Luntovsky.
For the first time, the Bank of Russia will announce the issuance of a
Olympic commemorative ticket, and for the first time the image is
vertically oriented, as reported by the Novosti News Agency.
Designed by Pavel Bushuyev, a student at the Repin Academy of
St. Petersburg Fine Arts, the banknote depicts a snowboarder
executing one of his exercises and will be the first Russian ticket with a
image placed vertically.
The blue-tinted banknote depicts the Sochi Olympic stadium and a firebird on its reverse side.
The issue will have a circulation of 10 million banknotes that will be put into circulation in Russia next October.
The first Olympic tickets appeared in China for the Games
Beijing Olympics in 2008. The Bird's Nest stadium and an ancient
Greek statue that represented the discus thrower, the “Discus thrower of
Mirón” were stamped on a 10 yuan bill.
The 2014 Winter Olympic Games, in their XXII edition, will be held
from February 7 to 23, 2014, in Sochi, Russia, with some events
which will be held in the resort town of Krasnaya Polyana. HE
They will hold ninety-eight events in fifteen winter sports.
Both the Olympic and Paralympic Games are being organized by
the Sochi Organizing Committee (SOC).
Sochi was chosen as the host city on July 4, 2007, during the
119th IOC Session in Guatemala City, defeating bids for
Salzburg, Austria, and Pyeongchang, South Korea. The Olympic Games
Sochi are the first for the Russian Federation, since those held
in 1980 as the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow, were held under the
Soviet Union.
