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7 unusual facts about Russian ruble


2012–13 KHL season

The salary cap changed from a soft cap to a hard cap, set at 1.1 billion rubles (approx. US$36.5 million), but each club can waive the cap for one player transferred directly from the NHL, if he is eligible to play for the Russian national team.

George Cohon

It accepted only Russian rubles, not hard currency, and in the early days, the line to enter the restaurant could be several hours long.

Irbit Fair

From forty to fifty million rubles worth of goods are exchanged there during the four weeks devoted to traffic.

John Colepeper, 1st Baron Colepeper

He was sent to Russia in 1650, where he obtained a loan of 20,000 rubles from the tsar, and, soon after his return, to the Netherlands, to procure military assistance.

ReactOS

The ReactOS Project won on the annual Seliger Youth Forum "The Best Presentation" award with 100,000 Russian rubles in 2011, attended by Alexander Rechitskiy, one of the development team members.

Soviet submarine K-159

Shortly after the loss of the submarine, the widows of four of the nine deceased submariners filed a lawsuit against the Russian Defence Ministry demanding compensation of one million rubles (about $37,500) each in moral damages, a lawyer acting for them said.

Spesmilo

The spesmilo was equivalent to one thousand spesoj, and worth 0.733 grams of pure gold (0.8 grams of 22 karat gold), which at the time was about one-half United States dollar, two shillings in Britain, one Russian ruble, or 2½ Swiss francs.


Georgian abazi

After the absorption of Georgia into the Russian Empire in 1801, the currency was not immediately replaced by the Russian ruble.


see also

Greg Hawkins

Gregory Dale Hawkins was a trader and principal in the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management that after four spectacularly successful years lost most of its clients' money in 1998 when the Russian government defaulted on its debt payments on August 17, 1998, triggering a devaluation of the Russian ruble.