100 Roubles Semireche Region

The Semirechye Oblast sits in what is now southeastern Kazakhstan and northern Kyrgyzstan — a remote, predominantly agricultural region that in 1918 found itself effectively cut off from any functioning central monetary authority. The Bolshevik seizure of power had shattered normal currency supply chains, and local administrations across the former Russian Empire scrambled to print their own notes simply to pay troops and keep markets functioning.

P#S1128 is one of dozens of such provisional emissions, collectively called "bonы" by contemporaries — obligations of necessity rather than banking instruments in any formal sense. Semirechye's isolation made redemption a theoretical concept at best; the notes circulated by inertia and local trust, not any institutional guarantee.

The "S" prefix in Pick's numbering places this squarely in the Russian Civil War local issue category, a designation covering hundreds of regional, municipal, and military emissions from 1917–1922.