Abstract. The article examines the process of transforming the integrated rouble zone and introducing national currencies in the former USSR republics at the beginning of the 1900s. The author discovers the motives, which influenced this process, analyzes researchers’ works on this problem and pays special attention to non-economic reasons for the integrated rouble zone transformation considering them to be the key ones when interpreting this problem and at the same time almost unknown.
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Key words and phrases: распад СССР, СНГ, постсоветское пространство, валютный союз, рублевая зона, экономическое взаимодействие, российско-украинские отношения, The USSR breakdown, The CIS, post-Soviet space, monetary union, rouble zone, economic cooperation, Russian-Ukrainian relations
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