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| Issuer | State Agroindustrial Committee of the Ukrainian SSR (Gosagroprom URSR) |
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| Year | 1989 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | Государственный агропромышленый Комитенс УССР пять 5 рублей Киев - 1989 (Translation: State Agroindustrial Committee USSR Five 5 Roubles Kiev 1989) |
| Reverse description | Light blue horizontal-line underprint on white paper. The issuing enterprise name is set within a decorative cloud-shaped vignette at top in mixed roman and cursive Cyrillic lettering. A central cloud cartouche carries the designation 'Денежный чек' in large cursive script. A serial number field and the Planning-Accounting Department reference appear at the foot, flanked by two small ornamental medallions bearing a star device. |
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Gosagroprom — the State Agro-Industrial Committee — was a short-lived Soviet bureaucratic experiment, created in 1985 by merging five separate agricultural ministries into a single supervisory body. It was dissolved in 1989, the same year these vouchers were issued, which places this note at the precise moment of the agency's own liquidation.
These agricultural vouchers circulated as internal scrip within collective farms and agro-industrial enterprises, redeemable for goods at designated rural stores rather than cash. They were a workaround for chronic coin and small-denomination shortages in Soviet rural economies — a problem that had persisted for decades. Printed in Kiev, they never left the Ukrainian SSR's administered agricultural network.