Blue-black on blue and multicoloured underprint. Eagle at top centre.
Script: Cyrillic
Lettering:
Государственный
кредитный билет
ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ
Государственный Банкъ размѣниваетъ кредитные билеты на золотую монету безъ ограниченія суммы (1 рубль = 1/15 имперіала, содержитъ 17,424 долей чистаго золота)
Translation:
State Credit Note
Five roubles
The State Bank exchanges state credit notes for gold coin without restrictions as to the total value (1 rouble = 1/15 Imperial, equals 17,424 dols of pure gold
Dark grey on blue and multicoloured underprint.
Script: Cyrillic
Lettering:
1. Размѣнъ государственныхъ кредитныхъ билетовъ на золотую монету обезпечивается всѣмъ достояніемъ Государства.
2. Государственные кредитные билеты имѣютъ хожденіе во всей Имперіи наравнѣ съ золотою монетою.
3. За поддѣлку кредитныхъ билетовъ виновные подвергаются лишенію всѣхъ правъ состоянія и ссылкѣ въ каторжную работу.
Translation:
1. Exchange of state credit notes for gold coin is backed by State property.
2. State credit notes circulate throughout the Empire on par with gold coin.
3. Forgery of credit notes is punishable by deprivation of all property rights and sentencing to hard labour.
Repeated pattern with "5"
Banknotes bearing Shipov's signature were issued across the Russian Empire, the Provisional Government, and the R.S.F.S.R. As a result, there are known variants based on the letter prefix (P#10) or block number (P#35) of the note. These differences are listed as follows:
(1): Prefixes ЗЯ-ОО. Issued by the Russian Empire.
(2): Prefixes ОП-ТУ. Block numbers УА-001–УА-043. Issued by the Provisional Government.
(3): Block numbers УА-044–УА-200, УБ-401–УБ-512. Issued by the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic (R.S.F.S.R.).
The order of the Cyrillic alphabet for these prefixes is А, Б, В, Г, Д, Е, З, И, К, Л, М, Н, О, П, Р, С, Т, У, Ф, Х, Ц, Ч, Ъ, Ь, Ѣ, Э, Я, Ѳ.