...Transdniestria - 1 Ruble 30th Year of Soviet Union Withdrawal From Afghanistan 1989-2019

Република Молдовеняскэ Нистрянэ

Приднестровская Молдавская Республика

Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic

This is a one ruble 2007 print with an overprint commemorative logo added to celebrate the 30th Year of the Soviet Union withdrawal from Afghanistan 1989-2019.

The Afghanistan civil war started when Afghanistan's communist party took power via a coup d'etat in 1978. The new communist regime was very unpopular among the people and by April 1979 large parts of the country were in open rebellion. In September 1978, under the order of Hafizullah Amin who was then the second-in-command in the communist government, ordered the murder of the then President Nur Mohammad Taraki. This led to the sour relationship between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan. Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, who was then the leader of the Soviet Union, sent the 40th Army division to Afghanistan in December 1979. Upon arrival at Kabul, they staged a coup détat killing the president Hafizullah Amin and installing Babrak Karmal as the new president. The west branded this Soviet Union action as an invasion and since then the country went into civil war with the west supplying arms to the Mujaheddin insurgency. The war went on for 9 years and in 1989, the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan when they realised that they had failed to quell the Afghan Mujaheddin insurgency. The withdrawal started on 15.05.1988 and completed on 15.02.1989, thus officially ending it's invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union.

The design of this note is the same as the 2007 issue but with the commemorative logo added to the watermark area on the right hand side of the note. The design of the logo comprises of mountain ranges on the background, a soldier holding an AK47 gun and a helmet with a big red star behind and underneath with two flags adopted between 27.04.1978 to 18.10.1978 (left) and 19.10.1978 to 21.4.1980 (right).

It appears that the only prefix printed for this issue is KC.

30 ЛЕТ ВЬIВОДА СОВЕТСКИХ ВОЙСК ИЗ АфГАНИСТАНА (30 YEARS OF THE SOVIET TROOPS FROM AFGHANISTAN)

One Ruble

ND2019

Reverse

List of all commemorative banknotes issued; -

2009 - 15 Years of National Currency;

2014 - 20 Years of National Currency, 2020 sets (4 notes);

2015 - 70 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (WWll), 7070 sets, 2000 sets in folders (2 notes);

2015 - 25 Years of Transnistria Republic, 2525 sets, 2000 sets in folders (4 notes);

2017 - 100 Years of the Great October Socialist Revolution, 5,000 sets, 2017 sets in folders (2 notes);

2017 - 100 Year of KGB/State Security Bodies, 2500 sets in folders;

2017 - 100 Years of Police Force, 2500 sets in folders;

2018 - 100 Years of Border Troops, 2500 sets, 1000 sets in folder;

2018 - 100 Years of Armed Force/State Police, 2500 sets, 1000 sets in folders (Text - 27 Yrs of the Armed Forces of the PMR);

2019 - 30 Years of Soviet Troops withdrawing from Afghanistan, 1500 sets in folders;

2019 - 75th Anniversary Years of Liberation from Nazi Invaders, 1500 sets in folders;

2019 - 75th Anniversary of Jassy-Kishinev Operation, 1500 sets in folders;

2019 - 25 Years of National Currency, 200000 pieces, 2500 sets in folders (2 notes);

2020 - 75 Years of End of World War ll (1945-2020), 2500 sets in folders;

2020 - 30th Year of Formation of Transdniestr, 2510 sets, 2500 sets in folders;

2021 - 30th Anniversary of the First PMR bank, 2510 sets, 2500 sets in folders issued;

2021 - 30th Anniversary of the PMR Financial System, 2510 sets, 2500 sets in folders;

2023 - 100th Year of the 2023 - 100th Year of Gold Chervonets, 2500 sets, 2490 sets in folders;

2024 - 30th Anniversary of the Pridnestrovian Ruble, 1,500 sets, 1,490 sets in folders;

2024 - 100th Year of Formation of the MASSR, 1,500 sets, 1,490 sets in folders;