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THE LIBERATION OF KIEV FROM FASCIST INVADERS.
A large-scale Soviet offensive operation to liberate Kiev from Fascist invaders unfolded in the autumn of 1943 with the offensive of the 1st Ukrainian front armies, which took the city by storm on November 6.
The capital of Ukraine was occupied by Germans for 776 days. The city lay in ruin. Before the war it had a population of nearly 1 million, but after the liberation there were only 183 000 residents left there.
Ukraine has been struck its own coins dedicated to the liberation of Kiev from fascist invaders: there are Jubilee 2 Hryvnias coin and 20 Hryvnias coin '60 years of Liberation of Kyiv from Fascist Invaders' (2003) and Jubilee 200 000 karbovanets coin 'Hero-City of Kyiv' (1995).

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Denomination: 3 Rubles Year: 1993 Material: Copper-Nickel Description: Jubilee coin 'The 50th anniversary of the liberation of Kiev from fascist invaders'. Obverse: In the center there is a view of the dome of the Senate building and the Saviour's Tower of the Moscow Kremlin, to the right – the mint trademark. The inscriptions along the rim framed by a circle of dots: at the top – 'ТРИ РУБЛЯ 1993 г.' (THREE RUBLES 1993), at the bottom – 'БАНК РОССИИ' (BANK OF RUSSIA). Reverse: A view of the statue of the symbolic Motherland, a part of the Ukrainian World War Two Memorial, against the background of the belfry of the St. Sofia's Cathedral and the monuments to Hetman Bogdan Khmelnitsky and Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich. Diameter – 33 mm, weight – 14.35 g. Edge: two incised inscriptions 'ТРИ РУБЛЯ' (THREE RUBLES) separated by two asterisks. Put in circulation since 03.11.1993. Artists: A.A. Kolodkin, sculptor: V.M. Kharlamov. Mintage: 150 000. The coin was struck at the Moscow Mint (ММД). Country or town: Russian Federation

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