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| Issuer | Far Eastern Republic |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ ДАЛЬНЕ-ВОСТОЧНОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ ОБЕСПЕЧИВАЕТСЯ ВСЕМ ДОСТОЯНИЕМ РЕСПУБЛИКИ 1920 УПРАВЛЯЮЩИЙ КАССИР |
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| Reverse lettering | ТЫСЯЧА РУБЛЕЙ 1000 РУБЛЕЙ ПОДДЕЛКА БИЛЕТА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ПО ЗАКОНУ |
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The Far Eastern Republic was a short-lived buffer state, nominally independent but effectively a Soviet instrument designed to forestall direct confrontation with Japanese forces occupying eastern Siberia after the Russian Civil War. Its paper currency was issued with a practicality born of that diplomatic fiction — the republic needed to function as a state, which required a banking apparatus and circulating notes, even though Moscow was pulling the strings throughout.
The 1000 Rouble denomination sits at the top of the FER's issue range, and given the hyperinflationary pressures tearing through the former Russian empire in 1920, even this figure bought little. The republic was absorbed into Soviet Russia in November 1922, after which FER notes became worthless overnight.