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5000 Roubles Voucher; Cooperative of the Military Medical Supplies Plant Z.V.V.Z.; Petrograd
| Issuer | Cooperative of the Military Medical Supplies Plant Z.V.V.Z., Petrograd |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Plain grey paper obligation printed by letterpress in black ink. A double-rule rectangular border frames the left portion of the face, with a narrow vertical panel at right bearing a handwritten manuscript annotation in Cyrillic. The issuer name, denomination word, preposition, and numeral 5000 are set in bold block type, with РУБЛЕЙ below. |
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| Obverse lettering | КООПЕРАТИВ З.В.В.З. ОБЯЗАТЕЛЬСТВО на 5000 РУБЛЕЙ (Translation: Cooperative Z.V.V.Z. / Obligation / for / 5000 / Roubles) |
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Z.V.V.Z. — the abbreviation expands to Zavod Vojenno-Vrachebnych Zagotovlenij, the Military Medical Supplies Plant — was among hundreds of Petrograd industrial enterprises that issued internal cooperative scrip during the early Soviet period when state wages arrived late, irregularly, or not at all. These vouchers functioned as canteen and store credit redeemable only within the factory's own cooperative shop, a parallel micro-economy born entirely from the chaos of War Communism.
The 5000-rouble denomination reflects the extreme inflation of 1920, when the Soviet rouble had collapsed so severely that five-figure sums bought little.