National Bank of Romania launches a multilingual online section on its gold reserve evacuated to Moscow and repatriation efforts

The National Bank of Romania has launched a new section on its website covering the history of the “Treasury” evacuated to Moscow in 1916–1917 and the efforts to secure its repatriation, aimed at making information on the holdings and recovery actions more accessible. The section provides synthesis materials in Romanian and English, with French planned, alongside period images and copies of original documents from the central bank’s own archive. The bank notes that it is custodian of the “Treasury” file consolidating documentation on the deposit of its gold stock in Moscow, weighing 91.5 tonnes of fine gold, and describes the gold held in Russia for more than a century as an unhonoured claim against the legal successor of the depositor-guarantor. Content is organised into themed areas including promotion activities, an exhibition on the Moscow Treasury, the Treasury’s history and inventory, partial restitutions, and documents supporting repatriation. The new materials are accessible via the “History and heritage” area of the National Bank of Romania’s website.