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1 Rouble North Russia - Chaikovskiy Government
| Issuer | Government of the Northern Region (Chaikovskiy Government) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | СѢВЕРНАЯ РОССІЯ. ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ ОДИН РУБЛЬ Государственная Эмиссионная Касса размѣнивать кредитные билеты на фунты стерлинговъ безъ ограниченія суммы по курсу 40 рублей = 1 фунту стерлинговъ. 1919 |
| Reverse description | Red-brown note with an elaborate symmetrical design of foliate scrollwork and guilloche underprint surrounding a central circular medallion bearing the uncrowned double-headed eagle. The Cyrillic denomination РУБЛЬ appears in large letters at left, with a columnar text panel at right containing regulatory conditions for the note's acceptance and use. |
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The Chaikovskiy Government — formally the Supreme Administration of the Northern Region, based in Arkhangelsk — issued this rouble during the Allied intervention of 1918–1919, when British and American forces occupied the city and propped up anti-Bolshevik administration in the north. Nikolai Chaikovskiy, the Socialist Revolutionary who headed it, was himself a deeply uncomfortable figurehead for a government whose survival depended entirely on foreign military presence.
When Allied forces withdrew in autumn 1919, the administration collapsed within weeks. Notes of this series had virtually no time to establish a functioning circulation base outside Arkhangelsk and the immediate region.