1 Rouble North Russia - Chaikovskiy Government

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.