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1000 Roubles Provisional Siberian Administration
| Issuer | Government of the Russian Eastern Borderlands (Provisional Siberian Administration) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | At left, an allegorical seated female figure in medieval dress holds a sword and a heraldic shield; at right, a double-headed eagle vignette frames the numeral 1000 at its centre. Cyrillic treasury note legends and the denomination ТЫСЯЧА РУБЛЕЙ appear centrally in bold letterpress, with the year 1920 below. Facsimile signatures of the Director and Cashier run along the lower margin, flanking the central text block. |
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| Reverse description | An ornate cartouche of scrollwork and foliate engraving occupies the central field, enclosing a multi-line legal tender declaration in Cyrillic. To the right, the bold letterpress inscription ТЫСЯЧА РУБЛЕЙ is set above the numeral 1000 within a decorative oval panel. Corner numerals 1000 are repeated in all four quadrants of the border. |
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The Government of the Russian Eastern Borderlands was the administrative apparatus backing Ataman Grigory Semyonov, the brutal Transbaikal warlord who controlled the eastern reaches of Siberia after Kolchak's defeat and execution in early 1920. By the time this note was issued, Semyonov's authority was already collapsing — the Red Army was closing from the west, Japanese support was wavering, and the territory he nominally governed was shrinking week by week.
Currency issued under these conditions rarely circulated widely. Much of it was printed to pay troops who would soon scatter, and redemption was never a realistic prospect. Semyonov fled to Manchuria in late 1920.