Description:
Obverse
In the center — the Emblem of the Bank of Russia (the two-headed eagle designed by I.Bilibin), the letters under it indicate the metal sign, the fineness, the fine metal content and the mint trademark. The inscriptions along the rim framed by a circle of dots: at the top — «25 РУБЛЕЙ 1995 г.» (25 RUBLES 1995), at the bottom — «БАНК РОССИИ» (BANK OF RUSSIA)
Reverse
At the top - an aircraft with a map of the Arctic coast in the background, to the right - portraits of Valery Chkalov, Georgy Baidukov and Alexander Belyakov, in the centre - an icebreaker and a group of Polar explorers on an ice-floe (I.D. Papanin, Y.K. Fedorov, P.P. Shirshov and E.T. Krenkel). The inscriptions along the rim: at the top — «ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ РУССКОЙ АРКТИКИ" (EXPLORATION OF RUSSIAN ARCTIC), at the bottom - "СТАНЦИЯ "СЕВЕРНЫЙ ПОЛЮС" <1937> ТРАНСАРКТИЧЕСКИЙ ПЕРЕЛЕТ ЧКАЛОВА" (THE STATION NORTH POLE <1937> CHKALOV'S TRANS-ARCTIC FLIGHT).
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