kopejka

plural kopejkas

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of kopeika (“kopek”).

   Tolstoy gave one ruble and the laborer only a few kopejkas.

   1952 February 29, Enfant Terrible [pseudonym], “Should fines be graduated?”, in The Kingston Whig-Standard, year 26, number 76, Kingston, Ont., page four

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   And this is in a great measure because of the taxes they are forced to pay, taxes for which they obtain in return nothing, not even the certainty of a few kopejki as pauper relief when too old and feeble to work.

   1905 June, Edith Sellers, “Official Poor Relief in Russia: A ‘Topsyturvy’ System”, in James [Thomas] Knowles, editor, The Nineteenth Century and After, volume LVII, number CCCXL, New York, N.Y.: Leonard Scott Publication Co.; London: Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., Printers, page 1030

   From The Progressive History of Russia we learn that in 1912 the average wage of an industrial proletarian in Russia was fifty-five kopejkas per day.

   1951, V. L. Borin, Civilization at Bay, London: The Forty-Five Press, page 118

   Roubles are separated from kopejkas by a period (eight thousand Roubles and fifty kopejkas - BRb 8000.50).

   1994, Centre for Co-operation with the Economies in Transition, Investment Guide for Belarus, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, →ISBN, page 164