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5 Kopecks Uralmashinostroy
| Issuer | Uralmashinostroy (Ural Machinery Construction) |
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| Year | 1931 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on plain paper within a simple rectangular border with decorative corner crosses. The issuer's name appears at top, with the denomination numeral '5' flanked by text in two lines at centre, and the chief of construction's signature line and date at foot. Vertical side inscriptions read 'В.С.Н.Х.' and 'С.С.С.Р.' |
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| Obverse lettering | Уралмашинострой Хозрасчетный знак 5 пять копеек Нач. Строит. А. Банников. 1931 г. В. С. Н. Х. С. С. С. Р. (Translation: Ural Machinery Construction. Cost-accounting token. Five kopecks. Chief of Construction, A. Bannikov. V. S. N. Kh., U. S. S. R.) |
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Uralmashinostroy was the construction organization responsible for building the Uralmash heavy machinery plant outside Sverdlovsk — one of the flagship projects of the First Five-Year Plan. During the construction phase in the early 1930s, the remote site lacked adequate state currency in circulation, so the administration issued its own small-denomination scrip to cover workers' canteen purchases and minor transactions on-site. These were not officially sanctioned banknotes but functional tokens of internal enterprise credit, a practice tolerated across numerous major Soviet construction projects of that period.
The plant itself became operational in 1933. Once integrated into the normal Soviet supply and wage system, scrip of this type was withdrawn and typically destroyed, which accounts for its scarcity today.