Russia 3 Roubles 1992 - Proof / Silver -The Academy of Sciences

The Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in 1724 by Peter the Great. In its early years it was located in Petr Shafirov's house in Peterburgskaya Storona and in 1728 it moved to Vasilyevsky Ostrov. In 1783-1789 a new building was built for the Academy of Sciences from a design by architect Giacomo Quarenghi. An example of late classicism, it is an organic part of the architecture of St. Petersburg's University Embankment. Among the Russian members of the Academy were Mikhail Lomonosov, Leonard Euler, Vasily Y. Struve, Alexander Vostokov, Pafnuty Chebyshev, Alexander Butlerov, Sergei Solovyev and Ivan Pavlov and its foreign members included Voltaire, Diderot, Kant, Goethe, Darwin, Planck and Pascal. a view of the Academy of Sciences building in St. Petersburg with two sailing ships and a boat in the foreground, above it - the inscription "САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГ" (ST. PETERSBURG), the inscriptions along the rim: at the top - "ЭПОХА ПРОСВЕЩЕНИЯ. ХVIII ВЕК" (THE AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT. THE XVIIIth Century), at the bottom - " АКАДЕМИЯ НАУК (THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES). the the two-headed eagle (designed by artist I. Bilibin). the letters below indicate the metal sign, the fineness, the mint trademark and the fine metal content. The inscriptions along the rim: at the top — «3 РУБЛЯ 1992 г.» (3 RUBLES 1992), at the bottom — «БАНК РОССИИ» (BANK OF RUSSIA). The artist: A.A. Kolodkin The sculptor: V.M. Nikishchenko Moscow Mint (ММД) The edge: 300 corrugations