Azov-Don Commercial Bank

The Azov-Don Commercial Bank or Azovsko-Donskoi Commercial Bank (Russian: Азовско-Донской коммерческий банк), often referred to simply as the Azov-Don Bank, was one of the largest joint-stock commercial banks in the late Russian Empire. It was founded in 1871 in the city of Taganrog on the shores of the Sea of Azov, to which its name refers as well as the Don River. In 1903, it relocated its head office to Saint Petersburg. In late 1917 following the Russian Revolution, like all other commercial banks in Russia, it was absorbed into the State Bank with no compensation to its shareholders.