CrimeaPRESS reports:
You can visit the former money depository of the St. Petersburg International Commercial Bank at an unusual exhibition in Simferopol. The room, which previously could only be accessed by a few, now regularly receives visitors and introduces the history of banking in Russia.
The unique safe room is located in Museum of the History of the City of Simferopol (Pushkin St., 17). A little over 100 years ago, this building belonged to the Wolf family, but in 1908 it was rented by a branch of the St. Petersburg International Commercial Bank. A real money vault was installed inside. The room was locked by a steel door. It was manufactured to special order in the northern capital at the mechanical plant of the Arthur Koppel joint-stock company. The locking mechanism was a lever lock with a secret part made of figured plates (level plates).
Now the “door with seven locks” is open to visitors. An exhibition took place inside, the basis of which was gifts from Simferopol collectors and residents of Simferopol. They brought from their home archives savings books from the tsarist era, payment receipts, various banknotes, photographs, and work belongings of bank employees. One of the interesting exhibits is a portable safe for small change and documents.says Tourist portal of Crimea.
A separate showcase is dedicated to the money of the Russian Empire and the Crimean Khanate. Here you will see a coin of the last Crimean Khan Shagin-Girai in denomination of 2 akche. There are coins issued during the reign of Catherine II and Paul I with their images. The exhibition did not ignore the advertising of loans on posters. One of them is agitating to take out a Freedom Loan from the Provisional Government of Russia, the other is a 5% War Loan issued during the First World War.
How the bank employees of our country worked in the middle of the last century will be shown by the “banker’s desk” with a table lamp, a Felix adding machine, a library, an inkwell, abacus and a telephone from the 60s.
You can visit the exhibition with a guided tour on any day of the week except Monday. The cost of an adult ticket is 100 rubles, a student ticket is 80 rubles, a child ticket is 50 rubles. Opening hours: from 10:00 to 17:00 (ticket office closes at 16:00).
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