[Perhaps alteration (influenced by pool) of obsolete cesperalle, drainpipe, from Middle English suspiral, vent, from Old French sospirail, breathing hole, from souspirer, to breathe, from Latin suspÄ«rÄre, to sigh; see suspire.]
The Russian Ruble is also known as the Russian Rouble. The United States Dollar is also known as the American Dollar, and the US Dollar. The symbol for RUB can be written R. The symbol for USD can be written $. The Russian Ruble is divided into 100 kopecks. The United States Dollar is divided into 100 cents.
The Soviet ruble or rouble (Russian: ÑÑÐ±Ð»Ñ; see below for other languages of the USSR) was the currency of the Soviet Union. One ruble was divided into 100 kopeks, (also transliterated as kopecks or copecks Russian: ÐºÐ¾Ð¿ÐµÌÐ¹ÐºÐ°, pl.n addition to standard banknotes, the Soviet ruble was available in the form of foreign rubles (Russian: Ð¸Ð½Ð²Ð°Ð»ÑÑÐ½ÑÐ¹ ÑÑÐ±Ð»Ñ); also, several forms of virtual rubles were used for inter-enterprise accounting and international settlement in the Comecon zone.