Originally posted by miko2d
Russians switched their money after 1992 - I do not remember the exact year, it may have been 1994 or later.
The old roubles were exchanged for the new ones at 1000 : 1.
So even if your money can still be exchanged, it's not 10,000 roubles but 10. So that banknote may be worth about 30 cents.
miko
This 10000RR bill was in use in 1992-1997. In 1998 they were taken out of use and exchanged as 1000:1.
This exact bill is a "new" 10000, the last "Soviet" design, and the first one that didn't have Lenin on it. You can see a Kremlin tower and a tricolor banner where it was supposed to be.
Old Soviet bills with Lenin were taken out of use in Augist 1993. As usual - in 3 days without warning. We were hiking in Baikal taiga, and when we came back to the city of Severobaikalsk we suddenly found out that most of our money is no more then paper
We were too late, it was the last day of exchange and the banks were already closed. Fortunately we had train tickets, but we spent 5 days on a train with a crowd of children, feeding them with buckwheat and canned meat that was left from our "field rations"... When we came to Moscow I didn't even have enough money for a subway...
