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Voucher - 1000 Roubles
| Issuer | Kolkhoz Avangard, Solonyansky District, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress print on cream paper with green confetti underprint. The USSR state coat of arms appears at top centre within a decorative guilloche border, with the denomination 1000 flanking both sides. A central vignette shows an agricultural landscape; below, the value ТЫСЯЧА РУБЛЕЙ is set in large display type. Serial numbers appear in four corner cartouches. |
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| Obverse lettering | СССР 1989 ДНЕПРОПЕТРОВСКАЯ ОБЛ. СОЛОНЯНСКИЙ Р-Н К-З "АВАНГАРД" ТЫСЯЧА РУБЛЕЙ (Translation: USSR 1989 Dnepropetrovsk region. Solonyansky district K-Z "Avangard" One thousand roubles) |
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Kolkhoz internal vouchers of this type emerged from a peculiarly Soviet contradiction: collective farms were formally part of a planned economy but chronically short of cash for day-to-day labour payments. Rather than wait for state bank disbursements, farm administrations issued their own scrip — redeemable at the kolkhoz shop or against future wage settlements, and entirely worthless outside the farm's boundaries. The Avangard collective in Solonyansky District was one of hundreds across Dnepropetrovsk Oblast doing exactly this in the late Soviet period.
By 1989 the practice was quietly tolerated by authorities who had little alternative to offer. Gorbachev's reforms had loosened central controls without replacing them with functioning credit mechanisms.