3 Roubles - Perforated North Russia - Chaikovskiy Government

The Chaikovskiy Government — formally the Provisional Government of the Northern Region — was a short-lived anti-Bolshevik administration established in Arkhangelsk in August 1918 under Allied protection, following the Anglo-American landing at the port. Nikolai Chaikovskiy, the Socialist Revolutionary whose name the government bears, departed for Paris by early 1919, leaving the administration increasingly dependent on British military support it could not outlast. When Allied forces withdrew in the autumn of 1919, the government collapsed within weeks.

The cancellation perforations on this note indicate it was officially withdrawn from circulation rather than simply discarded — a bureaucratic gesture toward fiscal order in a government that had very little time to exercise any.