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3 Roubles Nikolsk-Ussurijsk; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Prisoner of War Camp, Nikolsk-Ussurijsk |
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| Year | 1918-1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green and violet letterpress print on yellow paper with a simple decorative border. Large numeral '3' at centre in violet, with cursive 'Rubel' below; Cyrillic inscription 'НЕПРИНИМАТЬ! КОНТР-МАРКА' at top. Handwritten signature at bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | НЕПРИНИМАТЬ! КОНТР-МАРКА 3 Rubel (Translation: Do not accept! Countermark. 3 roubles.) |
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Nikolsk-Ussurijsk, now Ussuriysk in Primorsky Krai, became a significant Allied intervention point during the Russian Civil War, and the PoW camp there held prisoners — likely Austro-Hungarian and German — caught up in the chaos of the Eastern Front's collapse. Camp scrip of this type was issued to control internal purchasing and prevent hard currency from leaving the facility, a practice common across Allied-administered camps in 1918–19.
Campbell 7008 is among the less-documented Siberian camp issues; provenance and surviving quantities are poorly recorded, which makes attribution of individual examples genuinely difficult.