Ural franc - Wikipedia

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A stamp on an Ural Franc. A full banknote can be seen here and here.

The Ural franc (Уральский франк) was a scrip issued in Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) in Russia in 1991 by a team of businessmen and politicians headed by Anton Bakov.

At the time, it was supposed to be used in projects related to creation of the Ural Republic while the former USSR structures were collapsing and undergoing large-scale transformations. It never became the legal tender as Ural Republic-related projects were not generally successful.

But the banknotes were later used as money substitute in 1997–2000 at the "city-forming" Serov Metallurgical Plant [ru] in the northern Sverdlovsk Oblast's Serov town where Bakov served as director.

The notes, all 145 × 80 mm, came in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1000 francs (франков).^[1]^[2]^[3] They were made according to sketches by architect Sophia Demidova^[4] at the Goznak factory in Perm city. Nowadays they have numismatic value and are exhibited in museums.

References

^ Regions Defy Yeltsin to Start Talk of a More Perfect Union — New York Times, 25.03.1997
^ The Collapse of Development Planning — book by Peter J. Boettke (New York University Press, 1994)
^ OECD Economic Surveys: Russian Federation 1997 — 1997 OECD paper
^ (in Russian) https://sophia-demidova.livejournal.com/684.html

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See also	Gold franc Franc Poincaré Ural franc

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