This website was created at January 27, 2007

Introduction

    » The process of actual dissolution of the USSR lasted from 1989 till 1991. It included adoption of declarations of sovereignty by the republics, giving economic independence to the Baltic republics, etc. By December 1991, the Soviet Union actually dissolved.

    » December 8, 1991: the Belavezha Accords were signed, stating that the Soviet Union as a geopolitical reality and the subject of international law has disappeared.

    » December 26, 1991: Council of Republics of the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted the Declaration #142-N on the dissolution of the USSR, elimination of all the authorities of the USSR, including the Supreme Soviet.

    » Now we have 19 countries at the territory of the former USSR: 15 UN members (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan), 2 partially recognized (Abkhazia and South Ossetia) and 2 unrecognized (Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria). 15 of these countries issue their own coins. This territory is commonly refered to as "CIS and Baltic countries", though 5 of the 19 countries are neither members of CIS nor Baltic countries.

News and updates

04.01.2012 - large images of 2 euro 2012 "10 years or euro coins and banknotes" (Estonia); 10 roubles 2011 SPMD "50th Anniversary of the First Space Flight", 50 kopeks and 10 roubles 2012 MMD (Russia); 50 kopeks 2011 (Ukraine) were added to the catalog

27.01.2012 - The website's birthday! It was created 5 years ago.

22.01.2012 - 1 hryvnia 2011 coin was found in circulation (Ukraine)

22.01.2012 - 50 kopeks 2012 MMD coin was found in circulation (Russia)

20.01.2012 - 10 kopeks 2012 MMD coin was found in circulation (Russia)

17.01.2012 - 5 roubles 2012 MMD coin was found in circulation (Russia)

16.01.2012 - Bank of Lithuania issued the mint set 2012 (Lithuania)

13.01.2012 - large images of 5 bani 2010, 10 and 25 bani 2011 were added to the catalog (Moldova)

04.01.2012 - large images of 50 tenge 2011 "Karaganda" (Kazakhstan); 1 lats 2011 "Gingerbread heart" (Latvia); 10 roubles 2011 SPMD "Yelnya" (Russia) were added to the catalog

02.01.2012 - Bank of Estonia issued 2 euro 2012 "10 years or euro coins and banknotes", mintage 2 mln.pcs. (Estonia)

02.01.2012 - news and updates of the first half of the previous year were moved to the archive

29.12.2011 - 10 roubles 2012 MMD coin was found in circulation (Russia)

09.12.2011 - Bank of Latvia issued 1 lats 2011 "Gingerbread heart" (Latvia)

06.12.2011 - large image of 2 roubles 2011 MMD was added to the catalog (Russia)

05.12.2011 - large image of 1 rouble 2011 MMD was added to the catalog (Russia)

01.12.2011 - Bank of Russia announced the issue of 10 roubles 2011 SPMD "50th Anniversary of the First Space Flight" (Russia)

25.11.2011 - the design of the commemorative 2 euro 2012 coin was published (Estonia)

20.11.2011 (or earlier) - 25 bani 2011 coin was found in circulation (Moldova)

10.11.2011 - Bank of Estonia published the mintages of euro coins 2011 (Estonia)

01.11.2011 - Bank of Russia announced the issue of 10 roubles 2011 SPMD "Yelnya", series "Towns of Martial Glory" (Russia)

29.10.2011 - National Bank of Kazakhstan announced the issue of 50 tenge 2011 "Karaganda", series
"Cities of Kazakhstan" (Kazakhstan)

23.10.2011 - large images of 50 tenge 2011 "Ust-Kamenogorsk" (Kazakhstan); 10 roubles 2011 SPMD "Rzhev" and "Yelets (2)" (Russia) were added to the catalog

16.10.2011 - 1 kopek 2011 coin was found in circulation (Ukraine)

14.10.2011 - large images of 1, 5, 10, 20 tenge 2011 and 50 tenge 2011 "Aktobe" were added to the catalog (Kazakhstan)

10.10.2011 - National Bank of Ukraine issued the mint set 2011 (Ukraine)

10.10.2011 - large images of 10 roubles 2011 SPMD "Republic of Buryatia", "Voronezhskaya oblast", "Vladikavkaz" and "Malgobek" (Russia); 500 sum 2011 "20th Anniversary of Independence" (Uzbekistan) were added to the catalog

03.10.2011 - Bank of Russia announced the issue of 10 roubles 2011 SPMD "Yelets", series "Towns of Martial Glory" (Russia)

23.09.2011 - National Bank of Kazakhstan announced the issue of 50 tenge 2011 "Ust-Kamenogorsk", series
"Cities of Kazakhstan" (Kazakhstan)

07.09.2011 - updates for July and August were added to the site

01.09.2011 - Central Bank of Uzbekistan announced the issue of 500 sum 2011 "20th Anniversary of Independence" (Uzbekistan)

01.09.2011 - Bank of Russia announced the issue of 10 roubles 2011 SPMD "Rzhev", series "Towns of Martial Glory" (Russia)

01.08.2011 - Bank of Russia announced the issue of 10 roubles 2011 SPMD "Malgobek", series "Towns of Martial Glory" (Russia)

26.07.2011 - 10 roubles 2011 SPMD "Oryol" were found in circulation (Russia)

23.07.2011 - 10 roubles 2011 SPMD "Kursk" were found in circulation (Russia)

05.07.2011 - 10 roubles 2011 SPMD "Belgorod" were found in circulation (Russia)

01.07.2011 - Bank of Russia announced the issue of 10 roubles 2011 SPMD "Voronezhskaya oblast", series "Russian Federation", and "Vladikavkaz", series "Towns of Martial Glory" (Russia)