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Voucher - 100 Roubles
| Issuer | Sovkhoz Abadzekhsky, Maikop District Agro-Industrial Union (RAPO) |
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| Value | 100 Roubles (100 SUR) |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress on cream paper. The left two-thirds carry a radiant sunburst underprint with three lines of bold Cyrillic slogans across the centre, framed by lozenge ornaments; a blank boxed panel at upper left is marked «М.П.» for an official stamp. The right panel repeats the APK AAO circular logo above the voucher denomination «ЧЕК НА СУММУ 100 РУБЛЕЙ» in large display numerals. |
| Reverse lettering | МАЙКОПСКОЕ РАПО СОВХОЗ «АБАДЗЕХСКИЙ» ХОЗРАСЧЕТ САМОФИНАНСИРОВАНИЕ АРЕНДНЫЙ ПОДРЯД ЧЕК НА СУММУ 100 РУБЛЕЙ (Translation: Maikop District Agro-Industrial Union Abadzekhsky Sovkhoz Farm Self-Financing Lease Contract Voucher for an amount of 100 Rubles) |
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Soviet agricultural vouchers of this type were issued by individual state farms — sovkhozy — as internal scrip, redeemable at the farm's own store against wages owed to workers. The Maikop District sits in the Adygea region of the northwestern Caucasus, and its agro-industrial union (RAPO) was a late-Soviet administrative structure introduced in 1982 to consolidate farm management under a single district authority. These vouchers circulated entirely outside the formal Soviet banking system and had no legal tender status beyond the issuing enterprise's own premises.
RAPO-era farm scrip is poorly documented in mainstream catalogs, and surviving pieces from named sovkhozy are genuinely scarce — most were redeemed, discarded, or simply worn to illegibility.