A significant number of provisionals is associated with the Civil War of 1918–1922. During this period, there was no stable central authority across most of the country; many regions became independent, and the devastation and war led to considerable inflation. Frequent tariff changes and the inability to supply the postal network with stamps of the required denominations necessitated periodic revaluations of existing stocks in accordance with the directives of the RSFSR People’s Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs, which did not provide for any overprints. However, in some localities certain post offices still applied overprints to the revalued stamps being sold, or simply wrote on them by hand. All these stamps are characterized by an extremely simple overprinting technique.
Overprint 1 on 1 Kopeck 1918.
Provisional Issue..
