Far East, Sevastopol win contest to select new banknote symbols
Symbols of Far East – bridge to Russky island and Vostochny launch site – and Sevastopol – Monument to the Scuttled Ships and Chersonesus – received the biggest votes to select new 200- and 2,000-ruble banknote symbols. The final standings were announced live on Russia 1 TV channel.
It’s up to Bank of Russia Board of Directors to decide which of the winners will be present on the 200-ruble banknote and which will decorate the 2,000-ruble banknote. The banknotes will arrive as early as 2017.
Here is how the final standings look like:
- Far East – 546,675 votes;
- Sevastopol – 543,858 votes;
- Kazan – 537,843 votes;
- Sochi – 513,334 votes;
- Volgograd – 513270 votes;
- Petrozavodsk – 310914 votes;
- Nizhny Novgorod – 297,230 votes;
- Vladimir – 288,509 votes;
- Irkutsk – 287,058 votes;
- Sergiyev Posad – 284,942 votes.
Overall, over 3.3 million people took part in the contest, and almost 10 million visited Твоя-Россия.рф website.
The all-Russian selection of symbols for new 200- and 2,000-ruble banknotes was initiated by the Bank of Russia. Never before the Russians could suggest and select symbols for new banknotes by themselves. The contest was a three-round procedure which ended on 7 October 2016.
