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| The 1000-ruble Bank of Russia note |
Russian Money 1000 Rubles banknote 1997 Bank of Russia
The front of the banknote depicts the monument to Prince Yaroslav the Wise and chapel on the background of the Yaroslavl Kremlin.
On the back of the banknote there is the Bell Tower and Church of John the Precursor in Yaroslavl.
The 1000-ruble banknote is printed on white high-quality cotton paper. Chaotically embedded in the paper are protective fibres of light-green and red colour, fibres with alternating red and yellow sectors, as well as a vertical security thread with repeated text seen in the transparent light. The banknote has local watermarks in the left and right coupon fields.
The paper has local watermarks on the left and right coupon fields. In the wide coupon field there is a fragment of the monument to Prince Yaroslav the Wise in the city of Yaroslavl and in the narrow coupon filed there is a numeric value of the denomination (value numeral 1000). When the banknote is held up to the light you can see various parts of the watermarks, some of which are lighter while others are darker than the surrounding paper.
Predominant colours of the banknote are blue and green.
The emblem of the Bank of Russia is made with optically-variable ink (OVI).
The banknote possesses several machine-readable security features.
Dimensions 157 x 69 mm.
In circulation since 01.01.2001.
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1997-2010 New Ruble "Cities & Monuments" Issue
Yaroslav the Wise
Yaroslav I, Grand Prince of Rus', known as Yaroslav the Wise or Iaroslav the Wise (c. 978 – 20 February 1054) was thrice Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev, uniting the two principalities for a time under his rule. Yaroslav's Christian name was George (Yuri) after Saint George (Old East Slavic: Гюрьгi, Gjurĭgì).
A son of the Varangian (Viking) Grand Prince Vladimir the Great, he was vice-regent of Novgorod at the time of his father’s death in 1015. Subsequently, his eldest surviving brother, Sviatopolk the Accursed, killed three of his other brothers and seized power in Kiev. Yaroslav, with the active support of the Novgorodians and the help of Varangian mercenaries, defeated Sviatopolk and became the Grand Prince of Kiev in 1019. Under Yaroslav the codification of legal customs and princely enactments was begun, and this work served as the basis for a law code called the Russkaya Pravda ("Rus Truth [Law]"). During his lengthy reign, Rus' reached the zenith of its cultural flowering and military power.
St. John the Baptist Church, Yaroslavl
St. John the Baptist Church (Russian: Церковь Иоанна Предтечи) in Yaroslavl is considered to be the acme of the Yaroslavl school of architecture. It was built in 1671-1687 on the bank of Kotorosl river in the Tolchkovo sloboda (district) which at that time was the largest and wealthiest part of the town.
Its walls and dome drums are covered with richly glazed tiles; the temple's fifteen onion domes are assembled in three groups. The 7-storey, 45-metre high bell-tower was built later than the church itself in mid-1690s.
The entire interior is covered with frescoes depicting Christian saints, St. John the Baptist hagiography and biblical topics. They were painted by Dmitry Plekhanov and Fyodor Ignatyev in 1694-1695.