Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Kopecks Uralmashinostroy
| Issuer | Uralmashinostroy (Ural Machinery Construction) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1931 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Fourth Rouble (1924-1947) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Уралмашинострой Хозрасчетный знак 10 десять копеек Нач. Строит. А. Банников. 1931 г. В. С. Н. Х. С. С. С. Р. (Translation: Ural Machinery Construction. Cost-accounting token. Ten kopecks. Chief of Construction, A. Bannikov. V. S. N. Kh., U. S. S. R.) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, showing the plain unprinted cream paper stock. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Uralmashinostroy was the construction trust responsible for building Uralmash, the giant machine-building plant outside Sverdlovsk — one of the flagship projects of the First Five-Year Plan. During construction, the remote site lacked adequate banking infrastructure, so the trust issued its own scrip to pay workers, redeemable only at company stores and canteens. These notes circulated entirely within the construction zone and were explicitly illegal under Soviet law, which nominally prohibited parallel currencies — yet the state tolerated them as a practical necessity on isolated industrial sites throughout the early 1930s.
Survivors are rare. Most scrip of this type was demonetized and discarded once permanent banking facilities arrived on site.