Samara

Obverse

the denomination of the coin ‘10 РУБЛЕЙ’ (10 RUBLES), inside the figure ‘0’ hidden pictures of the number ‘10’ and the inscription ‘РУБ’ (RUB), visible alternately when changing the angle of vision, stylised images of laurel and oak branches on the left and on the right, respectively, the inscription ‘БАНК РОССИИ’ (BANK OF RUSSIA) along the top rim, the year of issue ‘2024’ along the bottom rim, the mint mark at the bottom right.

Reverse

a relief image of a fragment of a memorial complex Monument of Glory and inscriptions around the circumference: ‘САМАРА’ (SAMARA) at the top and ‘ГОРОДА ТРУДОВОЙ ДОБЛЕСТИ’ (CITIES OF LABOUR VALOUR) at the bottom along the ribbon.

Authors

Designer: A.A. Brynza.
Sculptor: A.N. Bessonov.
Mint: Moscow Mint (ММД).
Edge: 6 sections with 5 corrugations and 6 sections with 7 corrugations alternated with 12 smooth sections.

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Samara was awarded the honorary title City of Labour Valour for the great contribution of its residents to the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, uninterrupted manufacture of military and civilian products at industrial enterprises and people’s labour heroism and commitment.

Samara (former Kuibyshev) made an enormous contribution to the Great Victory. During the Great Patriotic War, it was Kuibyshev that became the ‘auxiliary capital’. It hosted many institutions that were evacuated, such as the Government, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, many ministries called peoples’ commissariats, the entire diplomatic corps, the Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR, the All-Union Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Leningrad Drama Theatre. Before the war, Kuibyshev was a small town with population of 390,000 people. However, in September 1941 it was inhabited by around 700,000 people as it accepted a great number of evacuated people.

Moreover, around 1,500 organisations, including 60 major industrial enterprises, were evacuated to the Kuibyshev Region. Soon after the war began, Kuibyshev completed the construction of Russia’s largest aviation complex on the basis of aircraft manufacturers evacuated from the western regions of the USSR.

During the war, around 20 major industrial enterprises manufacturing weapons for the Victory operated in Kuibyshev. For example, during the war, the mechanical plant manufactured 20,000 armoured hulls for Il-2 and 4,000 armoured hulls for Il-10. In addition, the plants manufactured around 16,000 various armour protection components for planes. During the war, Kuibyshev made more than 36,000 military planes, every fifth air bomb and every third artillery shell. Thanks to the labour heroism of Kuibyshev’s residents, the city’s enterprises had ramped up the output of industrial products 11 times by 1945 as compared with 1940.

Many city enterprises received government awards for their feats of labour and were honoured with the Red Challenge Banners of the State Defence Committee multiple times.

Sources: https://www.samregion.ru, Executive Order of the President of the Russian Federation No. 444, dated 2 July 2020, ‘On Awarding the Honorary Title of the Russian Federation City of Labour Glory’.