The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie
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The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie is the name of a series of commemorative coins issued between 2001 and 2004 by the Transnistrian Republican Bank
It consists of silver coins featuring the following notable natives of Transnistria
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Transnistrian Republican Bank
The Transnistrian Republican Bank is the central bank of Transnistria. It issues its own currency, the Transnistrian ruble and also a series of memorable gold- and silver coins, among them The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie....
It consists of silver coins featuring the following notable natives of Transnistria
Transnistria
Transnistria is a breakaway territory located mostly on a strip of land between the Dniester River and the eastern Moldovan border to Ukraine...
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- Anton RubinsteinAnton RubinsteinAnton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian-Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos...
(composerComposerA composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, born 1829 in OfatinţiOfatintiOfatinţi , is a commune consisting of two villages - Ofatinţi and Novaia Jizni - in Transnistria, Moldova. It is located 15 km south of Râbniţa....
) - Yakim Grosul (scientistScientistA scientist in a broad sense is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the scientific method. The person may be an expert in one or more areas of science. This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word...
, born 1912 in TiraspolTiraspolTiraspol is the second largest city in Moldova and is the capital and administrative centre of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic . The city is located on the eastern bank of the Dniester River...
) - Lev Semenovich BergLev Semenovich BergLev Semyonovich Berg was a leading Soviet geographer and ichthyologist who served as President of the Soviet Geographical Society between 1940 and 1950...
(geographerGeographerA geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...
and biologistBiologistA biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...
, born 1876 in Bender) - Nikolay Dimitrievich ZelinskiyNikolay Dimitrievich ZelinskiyNikolay Dimitrievich Zelinsky , Russian and Soviet chemist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of USSR ....
(chemistChemistA chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
, born 1861 in Tiraspol) - Nikolay SklifosovskiyNikolay SklifosovskiyNikolai Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky was a Russian surgeon and physiologist of Ukrainian origin. He was born near the town of Dubasari, which is now in Transnistria. Sklifosovsky was a professor of medicine in Saint Petersburg and Kiev...
(surgeonSurgeonIn medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...
, born 1836 in DubăsariDubasariDubăsari is a city in Transnistria, with a population of 23,650. The city is under the administration of the breakaway government of the "Transnistrian Moldovan Republic", and functions as the seat of the Dubăsari sub-district, Transnistria, Moldova.-Name:The origin of the town name is the plural...
) - Mikhail LarionovMikhail LarionovMikhail Fyodorovich Larionov was an avant-garde Russian painter.-Life and work:...
(painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, born 1881 in Tiraspol) - Konstantin Kaetanovich GedroitsKonstantin Kaetanovich GedroitsKonstantin Kaetanovich Gedroits was a Russian scientist and painter born in Grigoriopol. Specializing in geology, he authored Genetic soil classification based on the absorptive soil complex and absorbed soil cations ....
(scientistScientistA scientist in a broad sense is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the scientific method. The person may be an expert in one or more areas of science. This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word...
and painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, born 1872 in GrigoriopolGrigoriopolGrigoriopol is a city in Transnistria, Moldova. It is the seat of the Grigoriopol sub-district of Transnistria. The city is located on the left bank of the river Dniester at , in central Transnistria....
) - Pyotr VershigoraPyotr VershigoraPyotr Petrovich Vershigora or Petro Petrovich Vershyhora was a Soviet writer and one of the leaders of the Soviet partisan movement in Ukraine, Belarus and Poland....
(writerWriterA writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
, born 1905 near RîbniţaRîbnitaRîbnița, also spelled Râbnița is a city in Moldova. The city is under the administration of the breakaway government of the Transnistria. According to the 2004 Census in Transnistria, it has a population of 53,648. Rîbniţa is situated in the northern half of Transnistria, on the left bank of the...
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