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3 Kopecks Uralmashinostroy
| Issuer | Uralmashinostroy (Ural Machinery Construction) |
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| Year | 1931 |
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| Value | 3 Kopecks (0.03) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on buff paper. A rectangular border frames the central text panel, with vertical side inscriptions reading В.С.Н.Х. and С.С.С.Р. The denomination numeral 3 appears in large bold type flanked by the value in words, with the issuer name at top and the chief of construction's signature line and year at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Completely unprinted, plain buff-toned paper with no design, text, or overprint of any kind. |
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Uralmashinostroy was the construction trust responsible for building Uralmash — the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant in Sverdlovsk — one of the flagship industrial projects of the First Five-Year Plan. During the early 1930s, the remote construction site operated largely outside the normal Soviet retail infrastructure, and the trust issued its own scrip to pay workers for use at site canteens and company stores. These notes were a practical solution to a chronic shortage of small-denomination state coinage, which the State Bank consistently failed to supply to outlying industrial sites in sufficient quantities.
The 1931 date places this squarely in the most intense phase of construction, before the plant's formal opening in 1933.