The Transnistrian Republican Bank (russian: Приднестровский республиканский банк, Pridnestrovskiy respublikanskiy bank) is the
central bank
A central bank, reserve bank, or monetary authority is an institution that manages the currency and monetary policy of a country or monetary union,
and oversees their commercial banking system. In contrast to a commercial bank, a central ba ...
of
Transnistria
Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), is an unrecognised breakaway state that is internationally recognised as a part of Moldova. Transnistria controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dniester riv ...
. It issues its own currency, the
Transnistrian rubla and also a series of memorial gold and silver coins, among them ''
The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie
The rubla ( ro, рублэ, rublă, , plural ruble; russian: wikt:рубль, рубль) is the currency of Transnistria and is divided into 100 ''kopecks''. It is also known as the rouble in Commonwealth English or ruble in American English. Si ...
''.
In October 2006, the bank inaugurated a new headquarters of a size of in
Tiraspol
Tiraspol or Tirișpolea ( ro, Tiraspol, Moldovan Cyrillic: Тираспол, ; russian: Тира́споль, ; uk, Тирасполь, Tyraspol') is the capital of Transnistria (''de facto''), a breakaway state of Moldova, where it is the th ...
.
New headquarters for Europe's newest Central Bank
Chairmen of the Pridnestrovian Republican Bank
* Vyatcheslav Zagryadsky (22 December 1992 – 1995)
* Vitaly Kanysh, ''acting'' (1995)
* Vladimir Borisov, ''acting ''(1995-1997)
* Oleg Natakhin (1997 – 13 April 1998)
* Eduard Kosovsky (13 April 1998 – 2005)
* Aleksei Melnik, ''acting'' (2005)
* Eduard Kosovsky (2005 – 16 July 2007)
* Aleksei Melnik, ''acting'' (16 July 2007 – 23 April 2008)
* Oxana Ionova (23 April 2008 – 30 December 2011)
* Olga Radulova, ''acting'' (30 December 2011 – 1 February 2012)
* Eduard Kosovsky (1 February 2012 – Incumbent)
References
External links
Transnistrian Republican Bank
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Economy of Transnistria
Central banks