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1 Rouble Nikolsk-Ussuriisk
| Issuer | Organisation of State Agricultural Warehouses (Организация Казённых С.-Х. Складов), Nikolsk-Ussuriisk |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette of a rural landscape with a ploughing farmer, framed by decorative garlands and flanked by the Cyrillic legends ОДИН (left) and РУБЛЬ (right) in stylised ornamental cartouches. The numeral 1 appears in the upper corners, and the border is composed of interlocking scrollwork guilloche. Three manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion beneath printed designation lines for warehouse and bookkeeping officials. |
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| Obverse lettering | ОДИН РУБЛЬ Заведывающий складами и лавками Помощник заведывающего Бухгалтер |
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Nikolsk-Ussuriisk sits in Primorsky Krai, close to the Manchurian border, and in 1919 it was deep in the chaos of the Russian Civil War — nominally under White forces but practically subject to whoever controlled the Trans-Siberian Railway that week. The Organisation of State Agricultural Warehouses was an agricultural supply institution, not a bank, which makes its issuance of currency a measure of how completely the normal monetary supply had collapsed in the Russian Far East.
Commodity-backed scrip from non-financial bodies was common across Siberia during this period, but warehouse-issued notes are among the more unusual variants. This is among the rarer locally-produced emissions from Primorye, with very few issuers from this specific city documented in Pick.