The 100th Anniversary of the Trans-Siberian Railway
Obverse
the two-headed eagle (designed by I.Bilibin), the letters under it indicate the metal sign, the fineness, the mint trademark and the fine metal content. The inscriptions along the rim: at the top — "25 РУБЛЕЙ 1994 г." (25 RUBLES 1994), at the bottom — "БАНК РОССИИ" (BANK OF RUSSIA).
Reverse
an engine gouing from Baikal tunnel, under it - Siberia's coat of arms, the semicircular inscriptions along the rim separated by an anchor crossed with an ax, the emblem of the Russian Empire's Ministry of Railways: at the top - "100 ЛЕТ ТРАНССИБИРСКОЙ МАГИСТРАЛИ" (THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY), at the bottom - "БАЙКАЛЬСКИЙ ТОННЕЛЬ" (BAIKAL TUNNEL).
Authors
The artist: A.V. Baklanov.
The sculptor: L.S. Kamshilov.
Leningrad Mint (ЛМД).
The edge: 134 corrugations.
The 9,302-km Trans-Siberian Railway linking Moscow with Vladivostok, Siberia's main transport artery, is the longest railway in the world. The 7,500-km Siberian section of the railway, runs from the Ural Mountains to Vladivostok via Omsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Taishet, Bratsk, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Chita and Khabarovsk. Built from 1891 to 1916, since 1967 the Trans-Siberian Railway has been used for running container services between Europe and Japan.