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3 Roubles North Russia - Chaikovskiy Government
| Issuer | Government of the Northern Region (Chaikovskiy Government) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-green tones and centred on a large shield-shaped cartouche bearing a numbered legal text in Cyrillic, surmounted by a crownless double-headed eagle vignette at upper centre. Large stylised numeral '3' guilloché panels occupy the left and right fields, set within an elaborate scalloped ornamental border with foliate corner pieces. |
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| Protection description | Crosshatch pattern |
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The Chaikovskiy Government — formally the Supreme Administration of the Northern Region — was a short-lived anti-Bolshevik administration based in Arkhangelsk, propped up by Allied intervention forces after British troops landed there in August 1918. Nikolai Chaikovskiy, the Socialist Revolutionary who nominally led it, spent much of his tenure in Paris lobbying for support rather than governing from the front. The currency it issued was backed by nothing more concrete than Allied goodwill.
The regime collapsed in early 1920 after the Allied withdrawal. Notes from this series had an extremely brief circulation window, and many were rendered worthless before holders could exchange them.