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Voucher - 50 Roubles 1994
| Issuer | Tuvacobalt Combine (Комбинат «Тувакобальт») |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1992-1997) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red-orange on cream paper, the face carries an ornate swirling arabesque border filling the entire field. A central rectangular vignette contains an equestrian figure of a mounted warrior at gallop. The issuer's name is inscribed in a ruled panel at top, with the title «РАСЧЕТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ» and the date 1994 at left, alongside a circular counter bearing the numeral 50 with wavy-line underprint. |
| Reverse lettering | КОМБИНАТ «ТУВАКОБАЛЬТ» 50 РАСЧЕТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ 1994 (Translation: «TUVACOBALT» COMBINE 50 SETTLEMENT NOTE 1994) |
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Tuvacobalt was the Soviet-era cobalt and nickel mining operation in Tuva — the former Tuvan People's Republic, absorbed into the Russian SFSR in 1944. By the early 1990s, like dozens of remote industrial enterprises across the collapsing federation, the combine faced a hard-currency drought severe enough that paying workers in scrip became a practical necessity rather than an ideological choice. These vouchers circulated internally, redeemable at the company store against wages that the broader monetary system could no longer reliably deliver.
Tuva's geographic isolation — the republic has no rail connection — made the problem worse than in most comparable regions.