Kopeika

They gave him but twenty-five kopeikas per day.

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

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.

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.

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

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).

Tatiana passed by the cart filled with pirogues. The tags read: Pirogue with meat: 45 kopeiki; pirogue with cabbage: 35; vatrushka: 25.