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3 Roubles Amur Railway
| Issuer | Main Food Committee of the Amur Railway |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1919 года. АВАНСОВАЯ КАРТОЧКА ГЛАВНАГО ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВЕННАГО КОМИТЕТА Амурской железной дороги М. НА ТРИ РУБЛЯ № 27 Предъявитель сей карточки имѣетъ право на получение товаровъ изъ магазиновъ продовольственныхъ комитетовъ на (3) р. Председатель Казначей Бухгалтеръ |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central vignette of a steam locomotive at upper centre, printed in pale green-grey, set within a plain rectangular border with small ornamental cross devices at the corners. Below the vignette, a block of Cyrillic text in small letterpress type sets out the conditions of exchange. Two circular official ink stamps are applied over the face of the note. |
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The Main Food Committee of the Amur Railway issued these notes as internal scrip to manage provisioning along one of the most logistically isolated stretches of the Trans-Siberian route during the Russian Civil War. The Amur line, only fully completed in 1916 after years of brutal construction through permafrost and taiga, became a contested corridor almost immediately — with Bolshevik, White, and interventionist Japanese forces all operating in the region by 1919.
Food committee scrip of this type was purely functional, denominated to cover ration transactions rather than wages. Survival rates are low; most circulated hard in extremely difficult conditions and few were preserved by anyone who held them.