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Goznak
Joint Stock Company "Goznak"/"Гознак" (short for
Государственный знак, or State Insignia) is a Russian joint- JSC Goznak
stock company responsible for research and development as well Type Joint Stock
as manufacturing security products including banknotes, coins, Company
stamps, identity cards, secure documents, state orders and Industry Research,
medals, as well as providing secure services.[1] It incorporates development,
seven factories and one research and development institute currency printing
involved in different stages of the development, research, and Founded 1818 (as Expedition of
manufacturing cycle. Storing State Papers)

Goznak combines paper and printing facilities which manufacture 1919 (as Goznak)
banknotes, government bonds, checks, letters of credit, savings- Headquarters 17 Mytnaya Street,
bank books (сберегательная книжка), lottery tickets, postage Moscow, Russia
stamps, blanks of passports, birth certificates, marriage licenses, Products Currency, postal
as well as publications of high artistic value and special and high- stamps, medals,
grade paper. badges, coins,
banknotes
Goznak also controls mints, which manufacture circulation coins,
Revenue 38,799,700,000
orders, decorations, and commemorative medals. It also
Russian ruble
manufactures credit cards, banking cards, phone cards. Goznak
(2017) 
not only prints Russian money, but also prints banknotes of
foreign countries, including Lebanon, Yemen, Guatemala, Owner Russian
Rwanda, Angola and others. government (100%)
Parent Ministry of Finance

History Website www.goznak.ru (htt

p://www.goznak.ru)
During the reign of Peter the Great, the Russians
established the Saint Petersburg Mint in 1724, which
would centralize coinage in Russia and begin to
produce different kinds of badges and medals used for
decoration.

In 1818, on September 4 (August 21 Old Style) in Saint-

Petersburg the Expedition of Storing State Papers
(Экспедиция заготовления государственных бумаг) One thousand rubles of 2000/2004
was founded by the Decree of Emperor Alexander I
under the authority of the Ministry of Finance; Dmitry
Guriev, Minister of Finance, assigned engineer Agustín de Betancourt to design and build the modern,
steam-powered currency printshop.

In 1838, a Prussian academician Moritz von Jacobi (known as Boris Yakobi in Russia), employed at
this Department, used his invention of galvanoplastics to produce printing plates for the first time in
printing history. In the 1890s, an employee of the Department Ivan Orlov(ru) invented and developed

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a new printing method called "Orlov's printing" (Орловская печать). Also, he built multicolor
printing presses, which would serve as a prototype for modern multicolor printing presses. Orlov's
machines were still in use in some countries in the 1970s.

After the October Revolution of 1917, the Department of State Currency Production was reorganized
and renamed Goznak (short for Государственный знак, literally State Ensign or Insignia) in 1919.
Although the initial scope of Goznak had been the production of bank notes, the production of coins
was added to its field of operation in 1941, when the Leningrad mint was taken over by Goznak.[2]
Goznak had its own All-union Research Institute in Moscow. In the 1920s, a Goznak employee and a
prominent Soviet sculptor Ivan Shadr created the first samples of the Soviet money. In the 1950s –
1960s, an employee of the Goznak’s Moscow Printing Factory V.A.Oleynik invented an original money
counting device, which would be further developed by other workers of the All-union Research
Institute. Thus, all of the paper and printing factories and mints of the Goznak were equipped with
the counting machines.

After the revolution of 1917 the Saint-Petersburg Mint of Goznak was renamed into the Leningrad
Mint. Its original name was returned in the 1990s. The Saint-Petersburg Paper Mill of Goznak was
also called the Leningrad Paper Mill during the Soviet period.

In 1997, Perm Printing Factory launched telecards for public telephones. During the first year of the
new site more than one million cards were produced. The quality of cards is fully in line with the
international standard.

In 1999, the Moscow Mint, for the first time in the history of Russia won the tender for the
manufacture of currency for India. In October 1999, they signed an agreement with India for the
manufacture of copper-nickel coins two and five rupees.

In 2006 the Association of the State Companies "Goznak" has been transformed into the Federal State
Unitary Enterprise "Goznak". Goznak includes 8 branches: 2 Printing Factories, 2 Paper Mills, 2
Mints, Printing House and R&D Institute.

At the beginning of 2006, the Moscow Printing Factory of Goznak started with the personalization of
the first ePassport. The personalization center is capable of processing of more than 5 million
passports per year. The personalization of the new generation of passports with the electronic data
carrier is carried by laser engraving at the Branches of Goznak – at the Main Personalization Center at
the Moscow Printing Factory and at the Multifunctional Personalization Center at the Moscow
Printing Works.

On March 3, 2008 Goznak has become a strategic enterprise of Russia.

On June 5, 2014 the Russian President Putin signed a decree on the transformation of the company
from the status of Federal State Unitary Enterprise to Open Joint Stock Company "Goznak", 100% of
which is owned by the federal government.

In September 2022, after "referendums" in the occupied Ukrainian territories, Goznak was included
in the next sanctions list of the British government. The company was accused of producing blank
Russian passports for citizens of Ukraine.[3]

Structure
JSC "Goznak" incorporates eight branches:

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Moscow Mint
Perm Printing Factory
Saint Petersburg Paper Mill
Saint Petersburg Mint
Moscow Printing Factory
Research Institute of Goznak (Moscow)
Krasnokamsk Paper Mill
Moscow Printing Works
The printing of banknotes of 5000
Memory rubles at the factory of FSUE
Goznak in Perm

In honor of the 175th anniversary of the foundation of Goznak, a

postage stamp of Russia was issued (1993),[4] and by the 190th
anniversary of the enterprise, a postal block[5] and a commemorative coin of the Bank of Russia
(2008) was issued. On July 30, 2018, the Bank of Russia issued commemorative silver coins in
denominations of 3 rubles and 25 rubles of series "200 years since the founding of the Expedition of
the Preparation of State Papers".

Postage stamp of Commemorative coin of the Bank of

Russia, dedicated to the Russia - the 190th anniversary of the
175th anniversary of Federal State Unitary Enterprise
Goznak (1993) "Goznak", 25,000 rubles, weight - 3 kg of
pure gold (2008)

Interesting facts

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In 1924, the Goznak collection was successfully demonstrated in the official class of the First All-
Union Philatelic Exhibition in Moscow.[6]

External links
Official website of Goznak in English (http://www.goznak.ru/en/) Archived (https://web.archive.org/
web/20210930034420/https://goznak.ru/en/) 2021-09-30 at the Wayback Machine

Notes
1. Goznak's official website (http://www.goznak.ru/main.php?page=292) Archived (https://web.archiv
e.org/web/20070928165722/http://www.goznak.ru/main.php?page=292) 2007-09-28 at the
Wayback Machine.
2. See Goznak's official website (http://www.goznak.ru/main.php?page=296) Archived (https://web.ar
chive.org/web/20070928165754/http://www.goznak.ru/main.php?page=296) 2007-09-28 at the
Wayback Machine.
3. "UK sanctions collaborators of Russia's illegal sham referendums" (https://www.gov.uk/governmen
t/news/uk-sanctions-collaborators-of-russias-illegal-sham-referendums). www.gov.uk. 2022-09-26.
4. "№ 114. 175 лет Гознаку" (https://web.archive.org/web/20160304193846/http://www.marka-art.ru/
catalog/marka/position/12941.aspx). Каталог. Марки. Издательско-торговый центр «Марка».
Archived from the original (http://www.marka-art.ru/catalog/marka/position/12941.aspx) on 2016-
03-04. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
5. "№ 1265. К 190-летию Гознака" (https://web.archive.org/web/20111203051019/http://www.marka
-art.ru/catalog/marka/position/13374.aspx). Каталог. Марки. Издательско-торговый центр
«Марка». Archived from the original (http://www.marka-art.ru/catalog/marka/position/13374.aspx)
on 2011-12-03. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
6. Кулаков В. Филателия в Москве: первые итоги — новые задачи (1924—1925 годы) //
Филателия. — 1992. — № 1. — С. 48—50.

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