Ruble in The Soviet Union
The Soviet currency had its own name in all Soviet languages, sometimes quite different from its Russian designation. All banknotes had the currency name and their nominal printed in the languages of every Soviet Republic. This naming is preserved in modern Russia; for example: Tatar for ruble and kopek are sum and tien. The current names of several currencies of Central Asia are simply the local names of the ruble. Finnish last appeared on 1947 banknotes since the Karelo-Finnish SSR was dissolved in 1956.
The name of the currency in the official languages of the 15 republics, in the order they appeared in the banknotes:
| Language | In local language | Transliteration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ruble | kopek | ruble | kopek | |
| Russian | рубль | копейка | rubl’ | kopeika |
| Ukrainian | карбованець | копійка | karbovanets’ | kopiyka |
| Belarusian | рубель | капейка | rub’el’ | kapeika |
| Uzbek | сўм | тийин | so‘m | tiyin |
| Kazakh | сом | тиын | som | tiyn |
| Georgian | მანეთი | კაპიკი | maneti | kapiki |
| Azerbaijani | манат | гəпик | manat | qəpik |
| Lithuanian | rublis | kapeika | — | — |
| Finnish | rupla | kopeekka | — | — |
| Moldavian | рублэ | копейкэ | rublă | copeică |
| Latvian | rublis | kapeika | — | — |
| Kyrgyz | сом | тыйын | som | tyiyn |
| Tajik | сӯм | тин | sum | tin |
| Armenian | ռուբլի | կոպեկ | roubli | kopek |
| Turkmen | манат | көпүк | manat | köpük |
| Estonian | rubla | kopikas | — | — |
Note that the script for Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Moldavian, and Turkmen have switched from Cyrillic to Latin some time around the breakup of the Soviet Union.
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