250 Roubles Stavropol

The Stavropol branch of the State Bank issued this note amid one of the most chaotic episodes of the Russian Civil War — the North Caucasus region changed hands repeatedly between Bolshevik, White Army, and various regional forces throughout 1918 and 1919, making orderly currency management essentially impossible. Branch-level notes like this one emerged precisely because central supply lines for printed money had collapsed and local administrators improvised with whatever printing capacity they had on hand.

S520H sits within a dense sub-series of Stavropol branch issues, the suffix letters distinguishing minor typographic variants that were once routinely conflated in older catalogs. The survival rate is uneven across the sub-types, with some variants substantially rarer than their near-identical neighbors.