5 Roubles Vladikavkaz

The Vladikavkaz Branch of the State Bank issued these notes during a period of extreme political fragmentation in the North Caucasus. By 1920, the region had passed through Tsarist, Menshevik, White Army, and Bolshevik administrations in rapid succession, and local branch issues became a practical necessity as central supply lines for banknotes collapsed entirely.

P#S600A sits within the broader category of Russian Civil War provisional issues — a collecting field where authentication matters, as many notes from this period were counterfeited contemporaneously, not just in later decades.