It was the first commercial bank to hold accounts for the foreign economic operations of both the regional committee of the CPSU and the local management of the KGB.

In 1990, the CPSU committee of the Leningrad Oblast became Rossiya Bank largest shareholder (48.4%), but after the coup attempt in August 1991 the bank's activity was frozen on 2 September 1991 as it was CPSU-related. Bank Rossiya was one of the hundreds of entreprises that CPSU financiers used to funnel the party gold away. Ivashko, who was Gorbachev's deputy general secretary, was issued to organize the transfer of CPSU funds, CPSU financing and support of its operations through associations, ventures, foundations, etc. On August 23, 1990, a secret memorandum from Vladimir A. History Rossiya's Headquarters on Rastrelli Square in Saint Petersburg Communist Party ownership and 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt The Pandora Papers leak revealed that the bank built a network of shadow companies that kept offshore wealth for Russian elites. The bank has been associated with the Vladimir Putin regime in Russia.

The company's headquarters are in Saint Petersburg.

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