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| Issuer | Far Eastern Soviet of the Peoples Commissars |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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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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| Signature(s) | Краснощеков (Chairman), Г. Колмановов (Komfin), Орлушевич (Manager, State Bank) |
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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.