rnkb bank is practically a direct subsidiary of vtb, and andrei lenidovich kostin, in fact, was one ofend a helping hand to crimea, so here are colleagues, these were those who took part from the first days, germanush, from the first days. colleagues here, the bank of russia was here from the first days, that is why, well, in fact, that is, it’s as if there was no vacuum here. in two weeks rnkb launched 11 branches, the bank focused on domestic consumers and carried out payments only in rubles, this helped crimeans quickly get rid of the hryvnia. the first branches opened on march 31, 1914, and literally 3 months later there were already 279 branches that fully covered all the needs of crimea and sevastopol. a new internal payment system was developed especially for the residents of the peninsula, which later grew into a national payment system. in fact, they tested this system on us, and we were the first in russia, who released a million maps of the world, this was 3 years later in march of the seventeenth year. crimean banks have been operating under sanctions for 10 years. mainland