image of a two-headed eagle (artist I. Bilibin), inscriptions along the rim: at the top - "3 РУБЛЯ 1997 г.", below - "BANK OF RUSSIA". In the lower part - the designation of metal, the alloy test, the precious metal content and the mint trade mark.

a panorama of architectural monuments of the Solovetsky Monastery. Above the circle there is an inscription: "Solovetsky Monastery" and the date "XV in".

300 corrugated

Solovetsky (Preobrazhensky) Monastery, located on the Great Solovetsky Island in the White Sea, was founded by monks of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery Zosima and Savvaty in the 30s. XV century. and is surrounded by walls 8-11 m high, 4-6 m thick with seven gates and eight towers (16th century), made up of untreated boulders. The architectural ensemble of the monastery includes the Transfiguration Cathedral (1556-1564), the Church of the Annunciation (1596-1601), the refectory with the Assumption Cathedral (1552-1557), the water mill, the belltower (1777), the Church of St. Nicholas (1834).