50 Roubles Nikolaevsk-on-Amur

The Amgun Gold Mining Company operated in one of the most remote corners of the Russian Far East, and its 1920 scrip issue was a direct response to the complete collapse of reliable currency supply during the Civil War period. With Kolchak's forces disintegrating and Bolshevik control not yet consolidated, the Nikolaevsk-on-Amur region was effectively cut off from any functioning monetary authority — local enterprises issued their own obligations simply to keep wage payments and trade moving.

The March 1920 Nikolaevsk Incident, in which Bolshevik partisan forces under Yakov Tryapitsyn massacred much of the town's population and subsequently burned it, would have destroyed most circulating scrip of this type outright. Survivors were few; so are these notes.