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500 Roubles Urals Cossack Territory
| Issuer | Ural Cossack Army (Уральскаго Казачьяго Войска) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 500 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour guilloche panel at left incorporating a double-headed eagle vignette with circular Cyrillic legend and denomination inscription within an ornate border. The central field carries the denomination in large Cyrillic script пятьсот рублей with serial number, flanked by dated coupon stubs valid between 15 March and 15 December 1918. A text block below states the bearer redemption conditions, signed by the Chairman of the Military Assembly and the Member of the Military Government as Treasurer, with validity extended to 15 December 1928. |
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| Signature(s) | Б. Кириченников and Г. Фомичев |
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The Ural Cossack Army issued its own currency in 1918 as the Russian Civil War fractured monetary authority across the former empire. The Ural (Yaik) Cossacks had long maintained a distinct administrative identity from other Cossack hosts, and their refusal to accept Bolshevik authority after October 1917 was swift and organized — currency issuance followed as a practical necessity of running an independent military government around Uralsk.
Kirilennikov and Fomichev signed as treasury officials, not military commanders — a deliberate signal that this was administered civil finance, not a battlefield scrip. The host was effectively destroyed as a fighting force by 1920, and most of its paper issues were rendered worthless during the Red Army's consolidation of the region.