1000 Roubles Vladikavkaz Railway Company

The Vladikavkaz Railway Company was one of dozens of commercial and industrial enterprises in the former Russian Empire that began issuing their own paper money following the Bolshevik seizure of power and the subsequent collapse of centralized banking. These are not bank notes in any orthodox sense — they are scrip, issued to pay workers and facilitate local transactions when state currency became either unavailable or worthless. The railway itself ran through the North Caucasus, a region that changed hands repeatedly during the Civil War years.

The 1918 dating places this note squarely in the period before the White Army consolidated control in the region. Whether issues like this were honored after the political situation shifted is, in most documented cases, doubtful.