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25 Roubles Far Eastern Soviet of the Peoples Commissars
| Issuer | Far Eastern Soviet of the Peoples Commissars |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a globe encircled by a decorative foliate wreath, with a ribbon banner inscribed ДАЛЬНИЙ ВОСТОК (Far East) across its centre. The denomination ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ is rendered in large Cyrillic lettering above the globe, with the numeral 25 and РУБЛЕЙ repeated in each upper corner; three facsimile signature lines appear below the central device. The entire composition is enclosed within a foliate border printed in dark red on plain paper, with an anti-counterfeiting notice at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents an allegorical composition flanked by a worker at right and a farmer at left, with a factory vignette at centre-left and a crop field at centre-right. A steamship and a steam locomotive are rendered along the lower portion of the design, together evoking the industrial and agricultural resources of the Far Eastern region. The overall layout is executed in a flat letterpress style characteristic of emergency issue notes of the period. |
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The Far Eastern Soviet of the People's Commissars was a short-lived Bolshevik authority operating out of Khabarovsk during the Russian Civil War. It issued its own currency in 1918 because the region was effectively cut off from central Soviet financial infrastructure — the Trans-Siberian Railway was contested, and White Army forces under Semyonov and later Allied intervention forces were pressing from multiple directions.
Krasnoshchekov, who signed as Chairman, was arrested by the Japanese in 1918 following their intervention in the Russian Far East. The Soviet collapsed shortly after. Notes from this emission had an extremely brief window of legitimate circulation.