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5 Roubles Turkestan District
| Issuer | Turkestan District (Краевой Совет Народных Комиссаров Туркестанской Советской Республики) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ВРЕМЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ ТУРКЕСТАНСКАГО КРАЯ 5 РУБЛЕЙ Управляющий Кассир 1918 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green on plain paper, dominated by a large ornate numeral 5 at upper centre within foliate scroll work. The Cyrillic inscription ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ is set in bold lettering across the centre, with a further РУБЛЕЙ legend on a ribbon scroll below. A multi-line Cyrillic text panel above the central numeral references the Tashkent Soviet of People's Commissars of the Turkestan Soviet Republic. The year 1918 appears at the base within the scroll design, with the digit 5 repeated at left and right margins. |
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Issued by the Kraevoi Sovet Narodnykh Komissarov Turkestanskoi Sovetskoi Respubliki — the regional Soviet authority that declared Turkestan an autonomous republic in April 1918 — this note was produced under genuine duress. Tashkent's printing facilities were improvised and undersupplied, and the resulting output was technically crude even by the standards of Russia's civil war emissions.
The Tashkent Soviet was isolated from Bolshevik Moscow for much of 1918–1919, cut off by the Basmachi resistance and the broader chaos of the Central Asian front. Local currency production was a necessity, not a policy choice.