3 Roubles The Russian Academy of Sciences

Reverse

The picture of Minerva, the Goddes of wisdom and patroness of sciences, crafts, arts and peaceful labour. To the right — an opened book on which pages at the top to the left —profiles of Peter the Great, the founder of the Academy of Sciences, and of scientists with inscriptions in two lines under them: «ПЁТР I ЭЙЛЕР ЛОМОНОСОВ» (PETER THE GREAT EILER LOMONOSSOV), at the bottom to the right — the buildings of the Academy of Sciences,above the book —the two headed eagle with the crown.The inscriptions at the top along the rim: «РОССИЙСКАЯ АКАДЕМИЯ НАУК». (THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES), the inscription at the bottom in two lines: «ОСНОВАНА В 1724 ГОДУ» (FOUNDED IN 1724).

Script: Cyrillic

Lettering:
РОССИЙСКАЯ АКАДЕМИЯ НАУК
ПЁТР I ЛОМОНОСОВ
ЭЙЛЕР
ОСНОВАНА
В 1724 ГОДУ

Translation:
THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
PETER THE GREAT EILER LOMONOSSOV
FOUNDED IN

Engraver: Igor Sergeevich Komshilov

Designer: Alexander Vasilyevich Baklanov

Edge

300 corrugations

Comment

Date of issue: 09 JUN 1999

The Russian Academy of Sciences, founded in 1724 by Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg is the biggest Russian and world science center. The Full Members of the Academy of Sciences were M.V.Lomonosov, L.Eiler, V.Y.Struve, S.M.Soloviev, I.P.Pavlov, V.V.Vernadsky, N.N.Semyonov, A.D.Sakharov. Foreign Honorary Members of the Academy were Voltaire, D.Diderot, E.Kant, J.W.Goethe, Ch.Darwin, B.Pascal, M.Plank. The Academy of Science was first accommodated in the house of Shafirov, fellow campaigner of Peter the Great, on the Petersburg Side Street. In 1783-1789, on the University Embankment, the new building for the Academy in the style of the mature Classicism had been erected (architect G.Quarenghi). Since 1934 the Presidium of the Academy has been quartered in Moscow. Today the Russian Academy of Sciences amalgamates 18 sectoral and 3 regional sections in Siberia, Ural and Far East, about 300 scientific institutions, more than 200 scientific councils, scientific research fleet.

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Price

Date	Mintage	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
1999 ММД	5000	-	-	-	-	-	-

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