By the way, exactly 36 years ago, on October 26, 1990, by order of President Mikhail Gorbachev, a commercial ruble exchange rate for foreign currencies was introduced in the Soviet Union. On November 1, 1990, a new commercial rate of 1.8 rubles to one US dollar was established. Since then, the ruble has "strengthened negatively" against the dollar about 45,000 times.