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100 Roubles North Russia - Chaikovskiy Government
| Issuer | Government of the Northern Region (Chaikovskiy Government) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 100 Roubles |
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| Obverse lettering | СЕВЕРНАЯ РОССИЯ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ СТО РУБЛЕЙ Управляющий Отделом Финансов Член Государственной Эмиссионной Кассы 1918 |
| Reverse description | Printed in olive-green on a plain ground, the reverse centres on an oval vignette with a bust portrait of an allegorical female figure wearing a pearl necklace, set within an ornate foliate frame. To the left stands a full-length allegorical female figure, interpreted as an angel or classical muse, against a decorative architectural border. The denomination is indicated by the inscriptions РУБЛЕЙ and the numeral 100 in guilloche cartouches to the right. |
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The Chaikovskiy Government — formally the Supreme Administration of the Northern Region — was established in Arkhangelsk in August 1918, days after Allied forces landed to support anti-Bolshevik resistance. Nikolai Chaikovskiy, the Socialist Revolutionary who led it, presided over a regime entirely dependent on British military and financial backing. These notes were a practical necessity: the region had been severed from Petrograd's monetary supply, and troops and civilians alike needed a functioning medium of exchange in an Arctic port city suddenly hosting foreign armies.
The issue was short-lived. By early 1920, the White position in the north had collapsed, and the Allied withdrawal effectively ended the government's existence.