100 Roubles

This note was issued by the Soviet government during the civil war period, when the Bolsheviks were printing currency at a furious rate to finance military operations against the White armies and interventionist forces. The ruble collapsed catastrophically during this period — by 1921, hyperinflation had made notes like this effectively worthless, and the entire pre-reform currency stock was swept away by the 1922–24 monetary reform that introduced the chervonets and eventually the new Soviet ruble.

The 1945 print date is the bibliographic registration date, not the year of issue — a cataloging convention that sometimes causes confusion.