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1000 Roubles Yakutia
| Issuer | Yakutsk Provincial Executive Committee (Якутский Губисполком) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | СЧЕТНЫЙ ЗНАК 1000 РУБЛЕЙ ОБЕСПЕЧИВАЕТСЯ ВСЕМ ДОСТОЯНИЕМ РЕСПУБЛИКИ 1921 ЯКУТСКИЙ ГУБИСПОЛКОМ ОТДЕЛ ФИНАНСОВЫЙ |
| Reverse description | Plain light-toned paper reverse with text printed in green letterpress, arranged in centred lines. The legends attest to the note's temporary circulation within the Yakut ASSR on a par with 1922 denomination signs, followed by the printed signatures of the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and the Acting People's Commissar of Finance. Small ornamental devices appear at top and bottom. |
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Yakutia's 1921 provisional currency emerged from the administrative chaos that followed the collapse of Kolchak's forces in Siberia. The Yakutsk Provincial Executive Committee — a Soviet body only recently in tenuous control of a vast and poorly connected territory — issued these notes under severe conditions: no functioning banking infrastructure, chronic paper shortages, and an economy still running largely on barter and pre-revolutionary coin.
Isidor Barakhov, one of the signatories, was among the few locally trusted Bolshevik figures in Yakutia at the time, which lent the notes what little authority they carried. Given the rudimentary printing conditions in Yakutsk in 1921, quality control across the series was inconsistent.