10 Roubles Semireche Region

Semirechye Oblast sits in what is now southeastern Kazakhstan and northern Kyrgyzstan, and in 1918 it was effectively cut off — geographically isolated, contested by Bolshevik and White forces, and unable to rely on currency supplies from either Omsk or Moscow. Local authorities issued their own notes out of pure necessity, not ideology. The Semireche emissions are among the most regionally specific of all Russian Civil War issues.

P#S1126 is typographically plain, produced under conditions that precluded any serious printing infrastructure. Counterfeiting was reportedly less a concern than simple paper scarcity.