kopeika

plural kopeikas · plural kopeiki

1. alternativeAlternative form of kopek.

   They gave him but twenty-five kopeikas per day.

   1845, “Notes of my Captivity in Russia, in the years 1794, 1795, and 1795. By J. U. Niemcewicx. Translated from the Original, by Alexander Laski. Edinburgh, Tait.”, in The Monthly Review, volume I, London: G. Henderson, […], page 94

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   The twilight approached, and he had not yet one kopeika for food or shelter for the night.

   1895, Jaakoff Prelooker, “A Russian Story”, in The Sunday Magazine, page 39

   I walked the streets, tired and hungry, here and there making a few kopeikas by helping Cousin Motel or my cousin Moishe sell canes on the Bazaar.

   1969, Martin D. Kushner, From Russia to America: A Modern Odyssey, Dorrance & Company, page 55

   Even public schools in Russian Turkestan did not enjoy full financial support from the government. For example, in 1893, Fergana oblast’ received 198,277 rubles for education, or 0.02 kopeiki per inhabitant of the region. Samarkand received 141,890 rubles, or 0.4 kopeiki per capita. In 1915, the Imperial government assigned 1,084,800 rubles for educational needs in Turkestan, which was 2.4 per cent of its total budget, or 0.22 kopeiki per capita.

   1970, Wasyl Shimoniak, “[Administration and Control] Educational Expenditures”, in Communist Education: Its History, Philosophy and Politics, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.; San Francisco, Calif.: Rand McNally & Company, →LCCN, part I (School and Society in the U.S.S.R.), page 138

   The loaf of bread that cost 30 kopeikas for years was now selling for 3 rubles!

   2009, Nadia Karalnik, quoting Roza Beydman, “The Hyperinflation in Russia: The Words of Roza Beydman”, in Farrokh K. Langdana, Macroeconomic Policy: Demystifying Monetary and Fiscal Policy, 2nd edition, Springer, →ISBN, page 118

   The Algebra of Conflict was published in a run of sixty thousand copies, which sold well being priced at twelve kopeiki by the All-Union Association for Popularization of Science (in Russian, Znanie).

   2023, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, “Reflexive Control”, in The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future through Science, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN