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5000 Roubles Blagoveshchensk
| Issuer | Blagoveshchensk Branch of the State Bank |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S1259E |
| Obverse description | Central vignette of a double-headed eagle surmounted by a cross, flanked on both sides by the large numeral '5000' within a decorative guilloche border. Serial number and branch prefix appear in the upper left and right fields respectively, with the denomination in Cyrillic script repeated twice across the face. Three signature lines are printed at the lower margin — Manager, Cashier, and Controller — above a decorative foliate frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | ПЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧЪ РУБЛЕЙ РУБЛЕЙ ВЫПУЩЕНЪ СЪ РАЗРѢШЕНІЯ ВСЕРОССІЙСКАГО ПРАВИТЕЛЬСТВА Подлежитъ обмѣну на общегосударственные кредитные билеты ПОДДЪЛКА ПРЕСЛѢДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ |
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Blagoveshchensk, perched on the Amur River directly across from Chinese Manchuria, was one of the most isolated flashpoints of the Russian Civil War in the Far East. By 1920 the Bolsheviks had briefly established control, the Whites had lost it, the Japanese were occupying neighboring Khabarovsk, and the short-lived Far Eastern Republic was being negotiated into existence. Notes issued by the Blagoveshchensk branch under these conditions were local emergency paper — not coordinated Moscow policy, but improvised responses to a complete collapse of currency supply chains from the west.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference places this firmly in the Siberia and Urals regional classification. At 5000 Roubles, this is a high denomination even by the inflated standards of 1920 Russian provincial issues.