1 ruble 2014 Rybnitsa

Transnistria. 1 ruble 2014. "Rybnitsa" from the SERIES "CITIES OF TRANSNISTRIA"

Rybnitsa is a city in the north of the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika. The administrative center of the Rybnitsa district of the unrecognized Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika. From Ribnita to the capital of Transnistria - Tiraspol - 120 km.

The first information about the settlement on the territory of the city belong to the first half of the XV century, in 1628. There are several versions of the origin of the name of the city. According to one of them, it originated from the name of the same name river Dry Rybnitsa, at the mouth of which, at the confluence of the Dniester, a settlement was founded. On the second - named after the boyar Rydvan, who rose from the Turks to the colonel, "remembering the fat pork of his places" - decides to flee to the left bank of the Dniester, under the arm of the Polish king. Soon a wooden fortress is erected and a settlement called Rydvanets appears. This fact is mentioned in the book of the Turkish traveler Evliya Chelebi, who visited these territories with the army in 1656-1657.

Obverse: in the center - an image of the State Emblem of the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika; on a circle - inscriptions: at the top - "TRANSNISTRIAN REPUBLICAN BANK", at the bottom - "1 РУБЛЬ"; in the lower part under the coat of arms - "2014".

Reverse: to the center - the image of the stele, an open book, personifying the chronicle of the city, against the background of the metallurgical enterprise, at the top - the year of the foundation of the city - 1623.

Release Date: 12/24/2014