Publications
The 70th anniversary of the Scientific Research Institute of Goznak!
The Scientific Research Institute of Goznak – the only research institute in the world developing scientific aspects of production of a wide spectrum from papermaking and security printing, coin and order production, up to development of mo...
Money with autographs
Among the endless variety of samples of the paper money preserved at the funds of Goznak, there is a small group of truly unique ones. Those are banknotes approved by the highest-level leaders of the country who left their autographs on the...
From fairy-tales to stamps: Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin
A “fairy-tale” artist Ivan Bilibin lived a long and eventful creative life. He was a book illustrator; a stage designer; created a multitude of advertisement posters and calendars; was the author of the emblem of the Interjacent Government...
“The Victory Loan” and banknotes with Alexander Nevsky: glimpses of history of Goznak’s “military” products
The Great Patriotic war changed the life of our country dramatically. It touched every enterprise, every house, everybody. Goznak went through the wartime difficulties in full measure. Evacuation of Goznak’s enterprises to Krasnokamsk and T...
Between two centuries: how the 100th anniversary of the Expedition of Storing State Papers was celebrated
On the eve of the 200th anniversary of Goznak, it is interesting to remember how they celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Expedition of Storing State Papers. Newspapers of that time will help us see into the matter.
Richard Zarrin (Rihards Zariņš): a “star” of the Expedition of Storing State Papers at the beginning of the 20th century
Richard Zarrin is one of the best-known artists who worked at the Expedition of Storing State Papers. His works include the famous pre-revolution banknotes “katenka” and “petenka”, the first soviet postage stamp, the State Coat of Arms of t...
A century and a half with “katenka” and “petenka”
150 years ago, in March 1868, the emission of new paper money – the state credit notes of the model of 1866 – started in Russia. The design of the new banknotes looked revolutionary to compare to their predecessors.
Artist Mikhail Mikeshin: projects that never became banknotes
Many well-known artists co-operated with the Expedition of Storing State Papers at different times. Nikolay Nabokov, Adolf Charlemagne, Richard Zarrin designed paper money… However, few people know that Mikhail Mikeshin, the famous author o...
“The Russian style” on banknotes
In 1887, the Expedition of Storing State Papers manufactured new samples of paper money – the state credit notes. They were made in “the Russian style” and became a result of a sexennial work of two artists – Adolf Charlemagne and Nikolay N...
