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100 Roubles Northern Camps
| Issuer | Glavnoye Upravleniye Severnykh Lagerey (Chief Administration of the Northern Camps), NKVD USSR |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 100 Roubles |
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| Obverse lettering | СССР главное управление северных лагерей РАСЧЕТНЫЙ ЧЕК 100 СТО РУБЛЕЙ -1937- (Translation: USSR Chief Administration of the Northern Camps COMMISSARY CHEQUE 100 ONE HUNDRED ROUBLES -1937-) |
| Reverse description | Plain white paper, otherwise unprinted save for a single octagonal violet ink control stamp applied by hand in the centre of the field. The stamp bears the issuing authority legend around its perimeter and the camp designation «Ка Мур Лагер» with «№9» at its centre, flanked by small five-pointed stars. A handwritten or rubber-stamped serial number in black ink appears in the lower central area. |
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Scrip issued by the Gulag's camp administration network for internal use within the Northern Camps labor complex — part of a broader NKVD practice of creating closed monetary systems that allowed prisoners to nominally "purchase" goods at camp kiosks while keeping their transactions entirely under administrative control. The rouble figures were theatrical; wages paid to prisoners in the late 1930s were almost entirely consumed by deductions for food, clothing, and housing costs calculated by the camp itself.
Survival rate is low. These notes were functionally destroyed or confiscated at the point of release or transfer, and the NKVD had no interest in their preservation.