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 fine metal content and the mint trademark. The inscriptions along the rim: at the top — "25 РУБЛЕЙ 1994 г." (25 RUBLES 1994), at the bottom — "БАНК РОССИИ" (BANK OF RUSSIA).

Reverse

workers laying a railway track, behind them - an engine, in the background - a taiga forest, above it - Siberia's coat of arms, the 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 - "УКЛАДКА ПУТИ" (TRACK BUILDING).

Authors

The artist: A.V. Baklanov.
The sculptor: I.S. Komshilov.
Leningrad Mint (ЛМД).
The edge: 252 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.