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1 Rouble Turkestan District
| Issuer | Tashkent Branch of the State Bank (Turkestan District) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The double-headed Imperial eagle vignette is positioned at upper centre, flanked by the date 1918 split across either side. The large Cyrillic denomination ОДИНЪ РУБЛЬ is printed in bold letterpress across the centre, with the issuing authority inscription ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАГО БАНКА arranged vertically alongside. Arabic text appears at upper left and upper right, serial number and series letters at left and right margins, with two manuscript signatures of the Manager and Cashier at lower left and lower right respectively, all within a geometric guilloche border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a single pale tone with a large central cartouche containing an ornate guilloche medallion with the denomination РУБЛЬ in Cyrillic. Two vertical text panels flank the central design: the left panel carries a Cyrillic text block citing the decree authority of the Council of People's Commissars of the Turkestan Region, and the right panel contains the legal tender and backing statement referencing the Tashkent Branch of the State Bank. The entire composition is framed by a stepped geometric border. |
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The Tashkent Branch issued this note during the brief and chaotic life of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Republic, which had declared itself in late 1917 against the explicit wishes of Moscow — an awkward arrangement that lasted until the Red Army reasserted control in 1919. Local printing was a necessity, not a choice. Supply lines to European Russia were severed by civil war, and the regional economy was collapsing under a combination of cotton monoculture, famine, and competing armed factions.
Locally produced notes from this period are notoriously crude by pre-revolutionary standards. The Tashkent press lacked both materials and skilled compositors, and the S1151 series shows it.