The Central Bank will issue a 200-ruble note using polymers

Now, when making banknotes of the Bank of Russia, paper containing 100% cotton is used.
The regulator plans to use polymers when issuing a 200-ruble note, which will be put into circulation this year, as well as a 100-ruble note dedicated to the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
According to experts of the Central Bank, the use of polymers will increase the protection of new banknotes, make the bills more durable, in fact plastic.
Experts note that the lifetime of plastic bills is three to five times longer than the life of paper. Polymeric money also has a great potential when protecting against forgery. The production of polymer banknotes reduces energy consumption by 30% compared to energy consumption for the production of paper money.
According to the Central Bank on July 1, 2017, 5 billion 785.9 million banknotes are in cash circulation for 8 trillion 673.3 billion rubles and 64 billion 896.5 million coins worth 91.6 billion rubles. Compared to a year earlier, the volume of cash in circulation increased by 507.1 billion rubles.
As the Internet portal "Kuban 24" wrote, the contest for the selection of a symbol for new banknotes was opened by the Central Bank on June 28, 2016. In the second round of the selection of symbols were the cinema "Aurora" and the monument to Catherine II in Krasnodar, as well as the Olympic stadium "Fisht" and the ski resort "Rosa Khutor" in Sochi. The resort city went to the final of the competition. The winners of online voting were Sevastopol and Kazan.
The final vote of the project "People's Banknote" was held on October 7, 2016 on the air of the TV channel "Russia 1". According to its results, the Far East took the first place, Sevastopol was the second. Sochi was in fourth place.
The Bank of Russia in February approved the design of new banknotes. On the denomination of 200 rubles will be placed the symbols of Sevastopol - an image of a monument to scuttled ships and a view of Tauric Chersonesos, and on a 2,000-ruble note there will appear the famous places of the Far East - the bridge to Russky Island in Vladivostok and the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur Region. The banknotes will be put into circulation in October 2017.