50 Roubles Chita

Chita served as the capital of the Far Eastern Republic, a nominally independent buffer state established in April 1920 at Soviet instigation to avoid direct confrontation with Japanese forces still occupying the Russian Far East. The State Bank branch there issued its own notes during this brief window of contested authority, printing locally under difficult conditions while multiple competing forces — Red, White, and Japanese-backed — remained active in the region.

The Far Eastern Republic was absorbed into Soviet Russia in November 1922, after which these notes were demonetized rapidly. Survivors in any condition are relatively uncommon given the short issue life and the chaos that preceded absorption.