2000 Roubles Urals Cossack Territory

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.