The 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of Kiev from Fascist Invaders

Obverse

in the center — a view of the dome of the Senate building and the Saviour's Tower of the Moscow Kremlin, to the right - the mint trademark. The inscriptions along the rim framed by a circle of dots: at the top — «ТРИ РУБЛЯ 1993 г.» (THREE RUBLES 1993), at the bottom — «БАНК РОССИИ» (BANK OF RUSSIA).

Reverse

a view of the statue of the symbolic Motherland, a part of the Ukrainian World War Two Memorial, against the background of the belfry of the St. Sofia's Cathedral and the monuments to Hetman Bogdan Khmelnitsky and Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich.

Authors

The artist: A.A. Kolodkin
The sculptor: V.M. Kharlamov
Moscow Mint (ММД)
The edge - two incised insriptions "ТРИ РУБЛЯ" (THREE RUBLES) separated by two asterisks.

A large-scale Soviet offensive operation to liberate Kiev from Fascist invaders unfolded in the autumn of 1943 with the offensive of the 1st Ukrainian front armies, which took the city by storm on November 6. The capital of Ukraine was occupied by Germans for 776 days. The city lay in ruin. Before the war it had a population of nearly 1 million, but after the liberation there were only 183,000 residents left there.