New money 3000 rubles. Why is the Bank of Russia introducing new money? Will the Bank of Russia really turn on the printing press?
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Non-existent 3000 ruble bill
In the fall of 2012, information appeared that a paper banknote of 3,000 rubles could be issued and its sale would become relevant. Vice Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Region Georgy Persky insisted on the introduction, noting that the new money should come out with the image of Yekaterinburg. It was also reported that the design option for a variety of intermediate denomination was proposed by Ural State Academy of Agrarian Academy professor Pavel Kovalev.
Meanwhile, soon after such information appeared, the head of Goznak, Arkady Tkachuk, made an official statement that there were no plans to issue such money in the near future.
This is not the end of the story of the non-existent 3,000 ruble coupons, the price of which is simply not determined. In 2014, they were talked about again in Novosibirsk during the opening of the new Bugrinsky Bridge. Then the mayor of the city proposed placing an image of this object on a banknote with a three-thousand denomination. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was present at the presentation of the bridge, noted that “this is a good idea.” He was reminded that a 10-ruble banknote, decorated with an image of the Krasnoyarsk Bridge, is now out of use. Therefore, “to strengthen the financial system” of the country, it would be advisable to release a copy with the image of the Novosibirsk Bridge.
However, so far the 3,000 ruble banknote is not going to appear, there is no official information about it on the Bank of Russia website, and it will not be possible to buy it anytime soon.
Registration of a non-existent 3000 ruble bill
Be that as it may, the 3,000 ruble banknote has several proposed design options. Sketches of a possible “three rubles” were prepared by Pavel Kovalev, professor of the department of graphic design at Ural State Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Thus, a mandatory element, according to the initiators of the introduction of a new banknote, is a monument to the founding fathers of the city of Yekaterinburg and the water surface of the city pond. At the same time, it was proposed to make the color scheme blue. As you know, the blue color is associated with those qualities that are inherent in the peoples of the supporting region of the Power:
- confidence
- calmness
- poise.
A yellow-green color scheme was also proposed - these colors are on the city’s coat of arms and flag, and are the colors of Europe and Asia in Olympic symbols.
New banknotes will appear in Russia. In 2017, the Central Bank will print banknotes in denominations of 200 and 2000 rubles, and they will go into the wallets of consumers. The regulator emphasizes that this is being done for the convenience of citizens. Lenta.ru answered five main questions about the new Russian banknotes.
What's happened?
In 2017, the Bank of Russia will introduce banknotes in denominations of 200 and 2000 rubles into circulation. The head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, announced this on April 12. It is still unclear what exactly the banknotes will look like. Nabiullina only said that their design is expected to be submitted for public discussion.
Russian banknotes now depict symbols of Russian regions. We would like to preserve this tradition, but at the same time give a start to a new tradition and make this choice public,” noted the Chairman of the Bank of Russia.
The last time the Central Bank introduced new money was in 2009. Then a 10 ruble coin appeared in Russia. Even earlier - in 2006 - they began printing red-orange five thousand banknotes with a monument to Muravyov-Amursky and a bridge over the Amur River. In 2001, Russians first became acquainted with blue-green 1000 ruble banknotes dedicated to Yaroslavl.
In 2015, a petition appeared on the website change.org for the introduction of 2,000 ruble banknotes dedicated to Vladivostok. It was noted that in the collective unconscious, thanks to the song of the Mumiy Troll group, the combination “Vladivostok-2000” was entrenched. The petition collected 7,447 signatures out of 10,000 required.
Press secretary of the head of the Chechen Republic Alvi Karimov, in turn, said that Grozny deserves to be decorated with a new banknote. “A beautiful city with a decent history. I'm sure most Russians will agree with this. Terrible deserves to be depicted. And first of all, we are talking about the Heart of Chechnya mosque,” he emphasized.
Why is this necessary?
“In our opinion, this will simplify citizens’ payments for goods and services,” Nabiullina explained. According to the Bank of Russia, a significant portion of payments in the country fall between 100 and 500 rubles, as well as 1,000 and 5,000 rubles. There is a steady demand for banknotes of intermediate denominations. That is, the regulator is introducing new money to make it more convenient for customers to pay in stores.
Why exactly 200 and 2000?
As already noted, for the convenience of consumers, intermediate denominations are needed. And this is 250 and 2500 rubles. Therefore, the regulator chose between 200 and 300, as well as between 2000 and 3000 rubles. Traditionally, in many countries of the world, banknotes with a “two” are used: 2 dollars, 2 fen (China, issued in the 50s of the last century), 200 euros, 200 hryvnia, 2000 Kazakh tenge and even 200 Russian rubles from 1993.
It is likely that the Bank of Russia simply decided not to deviate from global standards. Moreover, the two-ruble coin has been in circulation in the country for a long time. Although in the domestic tradition there are also “troikas”. Banknotes with a face value of 3 rubles were introduced in 1898 in the Russian Empire, and they were also used in the Soviet Union (of course, with an updated design). Three-ruble coins survived until 1991, and in 2015 the Central Bank minted a commemorative coin of 3 rubles for the BRICS and SCO summit, which was held in Ufa.
How will the introduction of new banknotes affect inflation?
Elvira Nabiullina hastened to reassure everyone who is worried about the rapid rise in prices, especially emphasizing that the issue of banknotes of the new denomination will not affect inflation and the money supply in any way. In addition, the issue will not require additional special costs.
From an economic point of view, it is better to issue banknotes of this denomination when the inflation rate is 4-6 percent, Nabiullina noted. Let us recall that by 2017 the Bank of Russia plans to reduce price increases to just 4 percent. To this end, the regulator is pursuing a strict monetary policy, expressed in a high key rate (11 percent per annum at the moment). Consumer activity of the population is destimulated, and the lower it is, the slower prices rise.
In addition, we are not talking about the unrestrained emission of unsecured rubles (presidential aide Sergei Glazyev calls for this from time to time - in his opinion, this will saturate the economy with cheap credit). Old banknotes will be gradually withdrawn from circulation, the volume of money will not change.
Will the Bank of Russia really turn on the printing press?
Of course. To print new money, we will have to use the capacities of Goznak. But there's nothing wrong with that. Moreover, the so-called printing press is working at full speed. The fact is that the federal budget deficit is covered from the Reserve Fund. The financial “airbag” is formed from foreign currency. The Ministry of Finance sells it to the Central Bank, the deal is secured by issuing new rubles.
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Just on Facebook news appeared that Russia is going to introduce a banknote with a face value of 3,000 rubles, which depicts the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv. A certain Victor Loginov wrote that the bill should go into circulation by the end of 2019. However, the social network user provided neither a link to the source of information nor any more detailed data. But he published a photo showing a sketch of a three-thousand-dollar bill: 
Why the Russian national currency depicts views of the Ukrainian capital, Hetman Khmelnytsky and the monument to the founders of Kyiv remains a mystery. It is not surprising that the provocative design has become the subject of discussion among ordinary users of the social network. The author of the publication himself doubted how the authorities were going to “reintegrate” such large spaces so quickly (remember: by the end of 2019), apparently meaning that with this design of the banknote its authors were opaquely hinting at the annexation of the capital of Ukraine by Russia.
The Russian Monitor correspondent, in an attempt to find at least some semblance of similar news on the Internet, “shoveled” through many resources, but did not find the slightest hint of the appearance of a 3,000-dollar bill, much less a bill with the image of Kyiv.
The only mention of the banknote was found by us on a certain website “Russian Coin”, but it referred to the initiative of a deputy from Yekaterinburg to immortalize the Ural city by depicting it on a banknote. True, a completely different sketch was given as an example: 
Considering that the “Russian Coin” website is most likely an amateur resource, and the information posted on it does not have any official background, you should not believe the news about the appearance of a 3 thousand banknote, unconfirmed by official sources. Fortunately, most likely we are dealing with another fake, although, given the “fantasy” and appetites of President Putin, you never know what else might come into his head. Just 5 years ago, no one could have imagined that in 2014 Putin would think of annexing Crimea and sending “little green men” there, and then starting a war in Donbass.
New banknotes in denominations of 200 and 2000 rubles can be obtained not only from a bank or in the form of a salary, but also purchased on a free classifieds website. The prices at which speculators sell banknotes are, of course, higher than their face value.
A new 2000 ruble bill is sold for 3000
Offers for the sale of new banknotes appeared on free classifieds sites just a few days after their official presentation. The cost differs from the nominal value: for a 200-ruble banknote with an image of Sevastopol they ask for 300 rubles, and in the early days speculators offered a “kopeck piece” with Vladivostok for three thousand rubles, but now the banknote is sold cheaper: from 2,200 to 2,700 rubles per piece.
Merchants are stirring up the interest of Khabarovsk residents with statements that a limited number of such banknotes have been issued and they will not go into circulation earlier than in two or three months.
New 200 and 2000 ruble banknotes: when will they go into circulation?
Meanwhile, banknotes with images of Sevastopol and Vladivostok entered official circulation on October 18. This means everyone has a chance to get a new banknote without the help of speculators. And, according to the Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, Far Eastern residents will be among the first to receive new money. She announced this at the presentation of banknotes, which took place a week earlier in the format of a teleconference “Moscow – Vladivostok – Sevastopol”.
The fact that “two thousand” and “two hundred” have already come to our region is also said by the residents themselves, who willingly share their photos with new money on social networks.
100 rubles - Sochi and Crimea: excitement for commemorative banknotes
It is worth noting that in addition to the new banknotes that have caused such a stir, commemorative hundred banknotes with a vertical image are in demand among speculators. The unique “hundred” costs three hundred rubles, there are two types on sale - with the image of a snowboarder, dedicated to the Olympics in Sochi, this banknote was issued in 2013, and also with the Crimean “Swallow’s Nest”, made in 2015.
— The excitement with the “two thousandth” will subside in a month. As soon as people receive their salaries, they will begin to actively “walk,” the salesman told us over the phone. — And you almost never see Sochi hundred-ruble notes in free circulation. They were sold to collectors and resellers. They are taking them, though not very well yet. But sometimes they call and ask, usually for a gift for someone. They buy two or three pieces.
The intention of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation to issue banknotes of “intermediate” denominations of 200 and 2000 rubles into circulation from 2017 looks, on the one hand, not very significant, and on the other hand, a routine bureaucratic decision caused either by some pragmatic (convenience of payments) or or some internal political considerations (once again to record and emphasize the Russian status of, for example, Crimea, Chechnya or the Far East). It would seem there is nothing to talk about.
But... We all live in a world of words and numbers. Words, written or spoken, enable communication between people. But so do numbers. Where and how do we all most often come across numbers in everyday life? That's right - through money: those same coins and “pieces of paper”, on each of which its denomination is indicated in a special way. And the consciousness of each of us to some extent (and the mass consciousness in general completely) thereby gradually learns to work in the system of these same “nominals” that set a certain coordinate system for both our communication and our internal thinking.
It is no coincidence that any change in the real system of power is accompanied not just by a monetary reform, but by a reform of the system of monetary denominations. And from these changes we can draw certain conclusions about the nature of what is happening. For example, if we compare the system of denominations of Soviet (1961-1990) and current Russian (since 1997) money, the fundamental differences between them are visible, as they say, to the naked eye.
Soviet combinatorics
Soviet money (coins): 1 kopeck, 2 kopecks, 3 kopecks, 5 kopecks, 10 kopecks, 15 kopecks, 20 kopecks, 50 kopecks, 1 ruble. Next came the “pieces of paper”: three denominations of state treasury notes (1 ruble, “three rubles” and “five”), as well as four denominations of tickets of the State Bank of the USSR (10, 25, 50 and 100 rubles). As you can see, in the Soviet numerological system, in addition to the main decimal (binary-pentary) code, someone very wise at the penny-ruble, mass accessible level, built in (or rather, recreated, because the same were the traditional denominations of the pre-revolutionary Russian ruble) and additional ternary code. Which, of course, gave the entire domestic mentality some additional dimension. And not just numerical.
I will not dwell here particularly on the phenomena of the “three ruble”, around which a significant part of the life of the drinking late Soviet contingent, the “five-altyn” (this was the cost without one kopeck - from Moscow to the very outskirts - of a loaf of “gray” bread) “revolved” or a three-kopeck coin (the cost of a glass of soda with syrup, a balloon, a pencil, a simple postcard or a thick school notebook of 18 sheets). I will only say that these phenomena were constantly present in the entire Soviet way of life, giving it a certain parallel, “non-circular” numerical dimension. And, in addition, developing the combinatorial thinking of citizens of the USSR.
Today's Russian money has a completely different system of denominations. Coins: 1 kopeck, 5 kopecks, 10 kopecks, 50 kopecks, 1 ruble, 2 rubles, 5 rubles, 10 rubles; “papers”: 5 rubles (withdrawn from circulation), 10, 50, 100, 500, 1000, 5000 rubles.
That is, any Russian citizen has hitherto been squeezed into the most banal, simple and “physical” of possible numerical spaces by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation: “one-five-ten (that is, two by five).” There are five fingers on a hand, ten on two hands, and each hand of a person is supposedly designed in such a way that it pulls towards itself...
It was not even the classic “three-seven-ace” of Pushkin’s Herman from “The Queen of Spades”, but some kind of forced “straightening of the brain convolutions”, almost completely destroying - at the mass level - the need for combinatorial thinking, and therefore the ability to think realize. And these, excuse me, are already civilizational aspects.
Money as a coordinate system
The Japanese, they say, have completely forgotten how to count “in their heads” and use only a calculator for this purpose: in its pure form or built into other electronic gadgets.
Or take the same Ukraine. Do you know which country its system of monetary denominations came from? Don’t be surprised - it’s American, exactly the same, only hryvnias instead of dollars, and kopecks instead of cents. Coins: 1 cent, 2 cents, 5 cents, 10 cents, 25 cents (quarter), 50 cents and dollar. Banknotes: 1 dollar, 2 dollars, 5 dollars, 10 dollars, 20 dollars, 50 dollars and 100 dollars (then 200 and 500 hryvnia bills were added to the Ukrainian system; these denominations were previously in the USA, but have not been issued for a long time). Who did it? Head of the National Bank of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko in 1997, almost 19 years ago. The same Yushchenko who later became the third “independent” president after the victory of the first “orange” Maidan in 2005. Coincidence? Or one of the mechanisms for transformation and “derussification” of Ukrainian society?
By the way, the initiative of the Russian Central Bank regarding new banknotes, voiced by Ksenia Yudaeva, also fully fits into the “American” scheme. Maybe someone somewhere realized that with the current level of Russian “simplicity”, monetary denominations were greatly overdone and did not get the effect that was expected, and therefore it is necessary to drive Russia into a proven and effective “system of monetary coordinates”? And was it by chance that dear Ksenia Valentinovna “democratically” allowed society to discuss the design of banknotes, but not their denomination?
In any case, it is possible to conduct a kind of experiment - to propose to the Central Bank to introduce banknotes of other “intermediate” denominations into circulation. For example, 300 and 3000 rubles - and look at his reaction. If everything that is written above is not nonsense, but has a real basis, then the reaction should be hysterically categorical: no, no and no - only 200 and 2000! For any reason.
By the way, the more zeros - including on banknotes - people have to deal with, the less critical and creative thinking they seem to have. But the Central Bank not only does not think about the denomination of the national currency, but also considers this idea categorically untimely. Although the real purchasing power of the current Russian ruble is already more than 200 times less than that of the Soviet ruble...
So don't look down on the denominations. There is no mystical “numerology” here - a continuous practice, from which, in fact, symbolism grows...
Vladimir Vinnikov,
