Ulyanovsk

Obverse

the denomination of the coin ‘10 РУБЛЕЙ’ (10 RUBLES), inside the figure ‘0’ hidden pictures of the number ‘10’ and the inscription ‘РУБ’ (RUB), visible alternately when changing the angle of vision, stylised images of laurel and oak branches on the left and on the right, respectively, the inscription ‘БАНК РОССИИ’ (BANK OF RUSSIA) along the top rim, the year of issue ‘2025’ along the bottom rim, the mint mark at the bottom right.

Reverse

a relief image of the monument Soldier of the Labour Front and the inscriptions around the circumference: ‘УЛЬЯНОВСК’ (ULYANOVSK) at the top and ‘ГОРОДА ТРУДОВОЙ ДОБЛЕСТИ’ (CITIES OF LABOUR VALOUR) at the bottom along the ribbon.

Authors

Designer: A.A. Brynza.
Sculptor: A.V. Gnidin.
Mint: Moscow Mint (ММД).
Edge: 6 sections with 5 corrugations and 6 sections with 7 corrugations alternated with 12 smooth sections.

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Ulyanovsk was awarded the honorary title City of Labour Valour for the great contribution of its residents to the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, uninterrupted manufacture of military and civilian products at industrial enterprises and people’s labour heroism and commitment.

Ulyanovsk became one of the largest evacuation centres for people, industrial enterprises, and government authorities and institutions. The city hosted 25 government institutions, 15 industrial enterprises, large organisations of national importance, and research and educational institutions which were evacuated from the occupied regions of the USSR and frontline areas. In total, 52 various government organisations and institutions were evacuated to the city.

Ulyanovsk Plant No. 650, which produced electric equipment for the famous Kathusha rocket launchers, was established on the basis of two Kharkov plants – Electropuskatel and the electromechanical plant. Moscow Research Institute No. 12 and two instrument engineering plants from Leningrad and Vyazma served as the basis for the establishment of Enterprise No. 280, which produced equipment for aviation and tanks, including over 80,000 units of electric equipment for tanks.

The Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant was another large enterprise of the city. It was established on the basis of the equipment and labour team of the Moscow Stalin Plant (ZIS). The Ulyanovsk branch became the main enterprise making ZIS-5 trucks. From 1943 to the end of the war, the plant produced 7,269 trucks in total at the rate of 80–100 trucks per day. In June 1943, it was decided to set up an independent enterprise – the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant – on the basis of the ZIS branch. Afterwards, the plant became a flagship of the national automotive industry.

The Ulyanovsk Cartridge Works named after Volodarskiy (Plant No. 3) played a crucial role during the war: it produced over 5.6 billion military cartridges. Actually, every third cartridge in the country was made there. For its outstanding achievements, the plant was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

Ulyanovsk cloth factories produced 23 million linear meters of grey military woollen cloth, accounting for 33% of total domestic output. Ulyanovsk sewing factories produced 4.2 million army overcoats, or every fourth one in the country.

Sources: https://rvio.histrf.ru, https://may9.ru, https://histrf.ru, Executive Order of the President of the Russian Federation No. 444, dated 2 July 2020, ‘On Awarding the Honorary Title of the Russian Federation City of Labour Valour’.