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2000 Roubles Urals Cossack Territory
| Issuer | Ural Cossack Army (Уральское Казачье Войско) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour guilloche vignette at left incorporating the Imperial Russian double-headed eagle emblem, with denomination numerals '2000' repeated at all four corners. Central text in Cyrillic states the obligation of the Ural Cossack Army for two thousand roubles at six percent interest, with dual date boxes indicating 15/28 March 1918 and 15/28 December 1918. Printed signatures of the Chairman of the Military Assembly, the Head of the Military Government, and the Accountant appear below the central text. |
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| Obverse lettering | ШЕСТИПРОЦЕНТНОЕ ОБЯЗАТЕЛЬСТВО УРАЛЬСКАГО КАЗАЧЬЯГО ВОЙСКА НА двѣ тысячи рублей Предъявитель получаетъ 15/28 декабря 1918 года изъ Войскового Казначейства двѣ тысячи рублей. Председатель Войскового Съѣзда Б. Кирпичниковъ. Председатель Войскового Правительства Г. Фоминыхъ. Членъ Войскового Правительства Бухгалтеръ. Обязательство дѣйствительно до 15/28 декабря 1928 года. |
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The Ural Cossack Army issued its own currency in 1918 as the region around Uralsk operated in a military and administrative limbo following the collapse of central authority. The territory's Cossacks had rejected both Bolshevik rule and subordination to competing White factions, maintaining a degree of autonomous governance that required its own financial instruments to pay troops and procure supplies.
Signatories Kirpichnikov and Fominykh were functionaries of the Ural Cossack administration — not figures of broader historical prominence, which has made provenance research on individual print runs difficult. The Ural Cossack forces were ultimately defeated by the Red Army in 1919–1920, and these notes were rendered worthless almost immediately upon that collapse.