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3 Roubles Arktikugol
| Issuer | Arktikugol Trust |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Composition | Paper (White) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in olive-green and black on white paper, the obverse carries multi-line Cyrillic text identifying the issuing authority — the USSR Ministry of Coal Industry and the Arktikugol State Trust — across the upper portion. To the left, a floral guilloche vignette frames the large numeral '3' in dark green, while the bold Cyrillic legend 'АРКТИКУГОЛЬ' appears in quotation marks centrally. The coupon number is printed in red, with the denomination 'ТРИ РУБЛЯ' and the year '1946' displayed prominently in the lower section. |
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| Obverse lettering | CCCP МИНИСТЕРСТВО УГОЛЬНОЙ ПРОМЫШЛЕННОСТИ ЗАПАДНЫХ РАЙОНОВ СССР Государственный Трест по добыче и сбыту угля на острове Шпицберген ,,АРКТИКУГОЛЬ' ТАЛОН No. НА ПРАВО ПОЛУЧЕНИЯ ТОВАРОВ В МАГАЗИНАХ РУДНИКОВ ТРЕСТА ,,АРКТИКУГОЛЬ' НА ОСТРОВЕ ШПИЦБЕРГЕН НА СУММУ ТРИ РУБЛЯ 1946 НИКАКИЕ ЗАЯВЛЕНИЯ ОБ УТЕРЕ НЕ ПРИНИМАЮТСЯ (Translation: USSR People's Ministry of Coal Industry State Trust for the extraction and sale of coal on the island of Spitsbergen 'Arktikugol'. Coupon No. Gives rights to the bearer to recieve goods from the stores of the mines of the trust 'Arktikugol' on the island of Spitsbergen The amount of three Roubles. 1946 No statement shall be accepted in the event of loss of the coupon.) |
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Arktikugol — the Soviet coal-mining trust operating on Svalbard — issued its own scrip currency for use at the company store in Barentsburg, the main Soviet settlement on the archipelago. Norway's sovereignty over Svalbard, established by the 1920 Spitsbergen Treaty, barred the USSR from using Soviet rubles there as legal tender in any official sense, which is the precise reason this parallel system existed at all. The trust scrip circulated only within the closed Soviet community on the island, redeemable solely at company-controlled facilities.
The 1946 series replaced wartime-era issues. Svalbard had been evacuated and heavily damaged during the German occupation, and Barentsburg required substantial reconstruction before normal mining operations — and the scrip economy that ran alongside them — could resume.