The State Bank of the Russian Empire was the dominant financial institution of the Russian Empire from its founding in 1860 until the Empire's end in 1917.
The former head office building of the State Bank, now the Saint Petersburg State University of Economics
1865 portrait of Alexander von Stieglitz (1814–1884), the first Governor of the State Bank
Burning of retired banknotes in front of the State Bank, 1870
Nikolai von Bunge in 1887
State Bank of the USSR
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The State Bank of the USSR, known as the State Bank of the RSFSR from 1921 to 1923, and commonly referred to as Gosbank, was the central bank and main component of the single-tier banking system of th
State Bank of the Russian Empire
…банк), then was liquidated in January 1920. After an extended gap during the era of war communism, it was eventually revived in Russia as the Soviet Gosbank in October 1921, whereas other organizations took central banking roles in newly independent Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, as well as Bessarabia…
Former head office of the Gosbank in Moscow, originally the branch of the State Bank of the Russian Empire
Exchange rate between the Soviet ruble and major world currencies, February 1985
Branch building in Stalino (later Donetsk), shortly after inauguration in 1928
The same building in 2008