Depicts the emblem of the Bank of Russia, the double-headed eagle without a crown, sceptre and globus cruciger. It is exactly the same eagle, that the artist Ivan Bilibin painted after the February Revolution as a coat of arms for the Russian Republic.

Under the eagle the semicircular inscription BANK OF RUSSIA, to the right under the eagle’s paw the mintmark (ММД or СПМД), on the top along the rim the denomination FIVE RUBLES, on the bottom two horizontal lines divided by a dot and the year of mintage under it.

In the centre, a little to the left denomination of the coin: the figure 5 and word under it RUBLES written horizontal, below along the rim and on the right part of the disc the stylized vegetable ornament (vine sprig) in form of a branch with two interwoven caulescents.