In the center of the disc indication of the denomination of the coin: 10 RUBLES, inside of the figure 0 hidden pictures of the number 10 and of the inscription RUB visible by turns on changing angle of vision, in the lower part of the disc the mint trade mark MMD, on the ring along the rim above the inscription: BANK OF RUSSIA, below the year of issue 2009, to the left and to the right stylized twigs of plants going over to the disc.

The coat of arms of Jewish Autonomous Oblast, the inscriptions along the rim divided by two dots: above RUSSIAN FEDERATION, below JEWISH AUTONOMOUS OBLAST.

The Jewish Autonomous Oblast is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous oblast) in the Russian Far East. Its administrative center is the town of Birobidzhan. The JAO is Russia's only autonomous oblast and, aside from Israel, the world's only Jewish territory with an official status.

The figure of the Amur tiger is turned to the right toward a viewer that symbolizes an unusual history and original way of the JAO’s development.

Artist: A. D. Schablykin.

300 corrugations and the inscription ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ (TEN RUBLES) recurring twice and divided by asterisks.