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10 Roubles Uralsk
| Issuer | Uralsk Branch of the State Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown and grey typographed note printed on the back of an Imperial Russian postage stamp design. The central oval vignette is framed by laurel branches, with the denomination numeral '10' repeated in the lower left and right corners. The top inscription reads 'ПОЧТОВАЯ МАРКА' and the bottom panel carries the value inscription 'ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ' in bold Cyrillic lettering. |
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| Reverse lettering | Имѣть хожденіе наравнѣ съ денежными знаками. Уральское Отд. Г. Б. |
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Uralsk, a Cossack-dominated city on the Ural River, became an island of anti-Bolshevik resistance almost immediately after October 1917. The Ural Cossack Host refused to recognize Soviet authority, and the local State Bank branch issued its own notes as the regular money supply from Petrograd collapsed entirely. This note is a product of that administrative rupture — a regional institution asserting continuity with the old imperial banking system while operating in a war zone.
The S-prefix Pick classification places it within the vast and often chaotic body of Russian Civil War regional issues, where provenance and authorization can be difficult to establish cleanly. Uralsk fell to the Red Army in January 1920, after a siege; surviving notes from the branch's 1918 emissions are not abundant.