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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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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The face consists of a text-based design enclosed within a decorative border with ornate foliate corner pieces in letterpress style. The central inscription in Cyrillic reads the denomination and issuing authority, with the date 1919 года at the top. Three manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion against plain paper, with the serial number printed to the right of the denomination line. |
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| Reverse lettering | Авансовыя карточки Главнаго Продовольств. Комитетомъ и линейными подобными обмениваются на денежные знаки безъ всякихъ удержаній по предъявленіи новыхъ на сумму не менѣе 100 рублей. |
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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.