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10 000 Roubles Turkestan District
| Issuer | Turkestan Soviet Republic |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Reverse description | At left, a vignette in early Soviet constructivist style shows a male worker seated on a bench and holding a flag, with agricultural implements and sheaves of grain at his feet. Cyrillic text reading ДЕСЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧ РУБЛЕЙ runs vertically along the left edge, with a central bilingual text block in Cyrillic and Arabic. A detachable coupon at right carries the denomination 10 000 РУБЛЕЙ in bold numerals within an ornamental frame, with Arabic-script inscriptions above and below. |
| Reverse lettering | ДЕСЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧ РУБЛЕЙ 10000 РУБЛЕЙ اون مینگ مبلغ مقدم 10000 |
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The Turkestan Soviet Republic occupied an awkward administrative position — nominally autonomous within the RSFSR but geographically isolated from Moscow during the Civil War, which forced it to issue its own currency well beyond what central planners had intended. This 10,000 Rouble note belongs to a series that emerged from that isolation, printed locally under conditions that were anything but stable.
Basmachi resistance throughout 1920 meant large portions of Turkestan were functionally outside Soviet control, and notes like this circulated in a region where the issuing authority itself could not guarantee territorial continuity from one month to the next.