In honour of defenders of fatherland

On 18 August 2025, the Bank of Russia issues a 50-ruble base metal commemorative coin featuring an image of the Saur-Mogila Memorial Complex (Catalogue No. 5716-0002). Saur-Mogila is a kurgan (burial mound) in the Donetsk People’s Republic with a height of 277.9 metres, which was of utmost strategic importance during the Great Patriotic War. Saur-Mogila was liberated from German occupiers in August 1943 after prolonged and bloody fighting.

The coin has a round shape and is 28.0 mm in diameter. The coin is combined, comprising a disc and an outer ring.

The obverse and the reverse of the coin have a relief rim around the circumference.

The edge of the coin is corrugated and has the inscriptions ‘50 РУБЛЕЙ’ (50 RUBLES) recurring twice and divided by asterisks.

The obverse of the coin features the inscriptions on the ring around the circumference ‘БАНК РОССИИ’ (BANK OF RUSSIA) at the top and ‘2025’ at the bottom. There are images of laurel and oak twigs on the left and right of the outer ring, extending onto the disc. The figure ‘50’ and the inscription ‘РУБЛЕЙ’ (RUBLES) below, denoting the face value of the coin, are in the centre of the disc. The figure ‘0’ features a security element inside in the form of the figure ‘50’ and the inscription ‘РУБ’ (RUB) visible at various viewing angles to the coin surface. The Moscow Mint trademark is at the bottom of the disc.

The reverse of the coin features a relief image of a fragment of the Saur-Mogila Memorial Complex and the relief inscriptions divided by points on the ring around the circumference ‘ГОД ЗАЩИТНИКА ОТЕЧЕСТВА’ (YEAR OF THE DEFENDER OF THE FATHERLAND) at the top and ‘САУР-МОГИЛА’ (SAUR-MOGILA) at the bottom.

The mintage of the coin is 1.0 million pcs.

The new coin is legal tender of the Russian Federation and is mandatory for acceptance for all kinds of payments without any restrictions at its face value.

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