The 200th Anniversary of the Foundation of Cherkessk

Obverse

a relief image of the National Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation, above it along the rim the inscription in a semicircle ‘РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ’ (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) framed with paired diamonds on both sides, under the coat of arms are the chemical symbol and fineness of the metal on the left and fine metal content and the mint mark on the right, at the bottom centre in three lines are the inscription ‘БАНК РОССИИ’ (BANK OF RUSSIA), the coin denomination ‘3 РУБЛЯ’ (3 RUBLES), and the year of issue ‘2025 г.’ (2025).

Reverse

a relief image of a memorial to the soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War, with a memorial wall against the background of the images of trees and clouds, laser treated for matte finishing, and the inscription ‘200/ЛЕТ/ЧЕРКЕССК’ (200/YEARS/CHERKESSK) in three lines on a matte background at the bottom of the coin.

Authors

Designers: E.V. Kramskaya (obverse), E.V. Davydova (reverse).
Sculptors: A.A. Dolgopolova (obverse), computer simulation (reverse).
Mint: Saint Petersburg Mint (СПМД).
Edge: 300 corrugations.

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The city was founded in 1825 as Batalpashinskaya stanitsa (village) at the location of a former military fortification – Batalpashinsky Cossack redoubt. Its original name is a rare case when a settlement was named after the defeated rather than the victor. Here, the Russian army defeated the army led by Ottoman seraskier Batal Pasha in September 1790.

The city was renamed Cherkessk in 1939 and has retained this name ever since.

Cherkessk was the centre of the Karachayevo-Circassian Autonomous Area over the period from 1957 and became the official capital of the Karachayevo-Circassian Republic in 1991.

In the late 1930s, Cherkessk opened an iron foundry, the first large industrial enterprise in Karachayevo-Circassia. Today, Cherkessk is the economic leader in the Karachayevo-Circassian Republic, accounting for more than half of the Republic’s industrial output.

The material was provided by the Mayor’s Office of Cherkessk.