1 Rouble Control Stamp - Type 2

The Chita Branch of the State Bank was operating under the authority of the Transbaikal Provisional Government in 1918, a regime that cycled through several political alignments during the Russian Civil War before the region fell under Ataman Semyonov's control. Emergency branch issues like this one were a direct consequence of the collapse of centralized currency supply from Petrograd — local branches improvised, often overprinting or converting existing fiscal documents into circulating currency.

The "control stamp" designation is the telling detail. This type was not printed as banknote stock but adapted from revenue or accounting material, the stamp function repurposed to assert monetary value when nothing else was available. Distinguishing Type 2 from Type 1 typically hinges on stamp color or impression placement rather than any change in underlying paper.