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Voucher - 500 Roubles
| Issuer | Kolkhoz Avangard, Solonyansky District, Dnepropetrovsk Region |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Value | 500 Roubles (500 SUR) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress print on cream fibrous paper within a double-line decorative border. The USSR state emblem appears at top centre, flanked by serial numbers at upper and lower corners. A rural vignette occupies the centre, showing farm buildings and fields. The denomination 500 is set in ornate cartouches at left and right, with the value in words across the lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | КОЛХОЗ "АВАНГАРД" (Translation: Kolkhoz "Avant-Garde") |
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Kolkhoz internal vouchers of this type circulated as surrogate wages within Soviet collective farms during the late 1980s, when chronic shortages of small-denomination cash made direct rouble payment to workers logistically difficult. The farm's accounting office would issue these against earned labor credits — trudodni equivalents — redeemable at the kolkhoz store for goods rather than convertible into state bank currency.
Solonyansky District sits in the steppe agricultural belt of Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, one of Ukraine's most productive grain regions. By 1989, Gorbachev's economic reforms had loosened some central controls without resolving the underlying supply failures, and local scrip like this filled the gap.