There is an opinion that a banknote dedicated to the city of Arkhangelsk with a face value of 500 Russian rubles is decorated with an image of a military sailboat, which has never been in Russian territorial waters. We checked if it was true.

The fact that one of the most popular today Russian bills are captured by a three -year training ship of the Argentinean Libertad Navy, according to "Hodor", Forum"YaPlakal"And many other resources. Curularity is added by the fact that the ship exotic for Russia is depicted against the backdrop of the Arkhangelsk Marine-River Station.

Banknotes with the advantage of 500 rubles of the current sample were introduced into circulation on January 1, 1998 and since then were updated Three times. The description of the banknote on the Bank of Russia website says: “The main image of the front side is a monument to Peter I against the backdrop of a sailboat in the port of Arkhangelsk.” And no more details.

In the article of the newspaper "Trud" of March 22, 2007 Approvedthat we have before us the famous centennial bark "Sedov", Listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest traditional sailing ship of our time. However, the real "Sedov" is not at all like an object from a banknote. The availability is especially striking Fourth mast.

On another site, collectors, It is saidthat the bill depicts a three-masted sailing-motor schooner "West". This version is also refuted Historians.

Picking is added by the absence of a Russian flag when parking in the Russian port, which would be a violation law Even for a foreign ship.

If you look closely, you can notice changes on the deck of the ship in the latest version (2010). One cabin disappeared and another appeared, other small details changed:

But the ship as a whole, as we see, remains the same. On this occasion, the Bank of Russia in 2013 is officially answered One interested citizen:

“In connection with your request, we inform that the banknote of the Bank of Russia with a face value of 500 rubles of the 2010 modification depicts not any particular sailing ship, but a generalized image. In its design, the artists of FSUE Goznak used images of different sailing ships, trying not to completely repeat any of them. ”

It would seem that the issue has been resolved, but you can’t pass by the vessel mentioned above ”Libertad", The educational frigate of the Argentina Navy, launched in 1956 and really never in Russia. At home, the ship has a cult status - for example, in 2013, after a misfortune in Africa Meet 200,000 Argentines. Let's compare the photograph of Libertada with the original 500-ruble banknote:

The image speaks for itself: the likelihood of such a coincidence is vanished. Even if you take into account the latest changes in the design, it will still be not a collective image, but a very specific ship.

Finally make sure of this will help us interview The main artist Goznak (1989–2002) Igor Krylkov, which he gave in 2011:

“There is no need to look for a secret meaning where it is not. In the photo with which I sparkled the port, there was a modern steamer. But at the last moment, the Central Bank said that with the general idea of the banknote the ship did not fit. I urgently found a photo with that sailboat and redrawn. How did I know that he did not go to Arkhangelsk? "

Thus, the common information turned out to be true - the Argentinean sailboat "Libertad" really served as a model for a ship from the Russian bill.