MOSCOW, August 7 Russia's gold reserves reached a new maximum of $179.6 billion in July, and their share in the country's international assets has updated its maximum since the beginning of 2000, according to Central Bank data.
Before this, the regulator reported that Russia's international reserves as of August 1 had grown to $602.05 billion from $593.5 billion on July 1. This was the maximum volume of reserves since March 2022. 
Russia's investment in gold increased by 2.9% in July to $179.6 billion, breaking the record set in April at $175.9 billion.
The share of gold in reserves increased to 29.8% from 29.4% a month earlier, which was the maximum since January 2000, when the share of monetary gold in Russian international assets was 31.2%.
The maximum share of gold was observed on January 1, 1993 — at the level of 56.9%, and the minimum — in June 2007: only 2.1%.