Goznak
| Joint Stock Company | |
| Industry | research, development, currency printing |
| Founded | 1818 |
| Headquarters | 17 Mytnaya St. Moscow, Russia |
| Products | currency, postal stamps, medals, badges, coins, banknotes |
| Owner | Russian government (100%) |
| Parent | Ministry of Finance |
| Website | www |
Joint Stock Company "Goznak" (short for Государственный знак, or State Insignia) is a in Russia, responsible for R&D as well as manufacturing in security products, including banknotes, coins, stamps, ID-cards, secure documents, state orders and medals, as well as providing secure IT services. It incorporates 7 factories and 1 R&D institute involved in different stages of the development, research, manufacturing cycle.
Goznak combines paper and printing facilities, which manufacture banknotes, government bonds, checks, letters of credit, savings-bank books (сберегательная книжка), lottery tickets, postage stamps, blanks of passports, birth certificates, marriage licenses, as well as publications of high artistic value and special and high-grade paper. Goznak also controls mints, which manufacture circulation coins, orders, decorations, and commemorative medals. It also manufactures credit cards, banking cards, phone cards. Goznak not only prints Russian money, but also prints banknotes of foreign countries, including Lebanon, Yemen, Guatemala, Rwanda, Angola and others.
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.
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