10 000 Roubles Government of The North Region

The Government of the Northern Region was a short-lived anti-Bolshevik administration established in Archangel in August 1918 under the protection of Allied intervention forces — British, French, American, and others who had landed in the White Sea ports that summer. Currency had to be produced locally and quickly, which is why this note was printed in Archangel itself rather than sourced from established security printers. The results were predictably crude by the standards of the era.

The regime collapsed in early 1920 when Allied troops withdrew and Bolshevik forces moved in. Notes of this series almost certainly circulated alongside Allied military scrip, British currency, and older Imperial Russian paper during the occupation period — an unusually tangled monetary environment for what was essentially a remote northern port city.