Russia – 3 Rubles – 1995 – SI Chelyuskin – 1oz Silver Proof

3 Rubles – 1995 – SI Chelyuskin – 1oz Silver Proof

Details:
Country: Russia
Mint: St. Petersburg Mint (SMD)
Face value: 3 rubles
Quality: Proof
Metal: Silver
Fineness: 900/1000
Total weight: 34.88g
Net weight: 31.10g
Diameter: 39.00 mm
Thickness: 3.30 mm
Print run: 25,000

Front:
The double-headed eagle and the letters below it indicate the metal mark, the fineness, the mint mark, and the fine metal content. The inscriptions along the edge: top – «3 РУБЛЯ 1995 г.» (3 RUBLES 1995), bottom – «БАНК РОССИИ» (BANK OF RUSSIA).

Back:
Top left – portraits of the Russian Arctic explorers, participants of the Great Northern Expedition: Stepan Malygin, Dmitri Ovtsyn, Semyon Chelyuskin and Khariton and Dmitri Laptev, middle right – a wooden sailing and rowing boat living on the coast, left – a dog harness with travelers, bottom – a map of the Siberian coast, right – two dates in two lines “1733-1743 гг.”. The inscriptions along the edge: above – “ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ РУССКОЙ АРКТИКИ” (EXPLORATION OF THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC), below – “ВЕЛИКАЯ СЕВЕРНАЯ”. ЭКСПЕДИЦИЯ” (THE GREAT NORTH EXPEDITION).

Information:
The Arctic, the northern polar region of the Earth, has always attracted intrepid seafarers and naturalists, but its intensive exploration only began in the late 19th century. Important oceanological observations were made by Fridtjof Nansen’s expedition of Norwegian North Pole explorers on the sailing ship Fram (1893-1896) and Roald Amundsen’s expedition on the ship Mod (1918-1920). In 1926, Amundsen led the first flight from Spitsbergen across the North Pole to America with the airship Norway. The airship’s commander was the Italian engineer Umberto Nobile. In 1928, Nobile led the Italian expedition to the North Pole with the airship Italia, which broke apart and crashed. The Russian icebreaker Krasin joined the expedition to rescue Nobile and his team. In 1933, the Russians attempted to sail from Murmansk to Vladivostok along the Northern Sea Route in a single voyage aboard the steamship Chelyuskin (named after the 18th-century Russian Arctic explorer Semyon Chelyuskin). However, in February 1934, the ship was crushed by ice in the Chuchye Sea, and the expedition members were rescued by air. In 1937, Russia established the first floating research station at the North Pole, North Pole-1, where Ivan Papanin, Yevgeny Fedorov, Petr Shirshov, and Ernst Krenkel worked. Also in 1937, Russian pilots Valery Chkalov, Georgy Baidukov, and Alexander Belyakov flew nonstop from Moscow over the North Pole to Vancouver.

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