This check is accepted as payment for goods and services on Soviet ships, aircraft, and trains operating on international routes. Aircraft.
From the early 1960s, the USSR began to develop active cooperation with socialist and developing countries. Thousands of Soviet specialists were sent abroad on assignments. The government then faced the question of how to “shield” them from foreign currency.
A practical need arose to create a system in which citizens would not receive hard currency in hand and would spend the funds they earned in foreign currency at home.
The most important parts of the new system were the Bank for Foreign Trade of the USSR (Vneshtorgbank of the USSR) and the All-Union association Vnesposyltorg. In the former, citizens were required to keep their currency in the form of foreign-currency rubles, and through the network of Vnesposyltorg stores and firms, to spend it.
It is important to note that, unlike other socialist countries, currency “substitutes” in the USSR were issued not for foreigners, but for its own citizens.
A detachable cruise check of Vneshekonombank (Vneshtorgbank) of the USSR is a monetary obligation of Vneshekonombank (Vneshtorgbank) of the USSR to pay the amount specified on the check. The checks were bound into checkbooks of the corresponding denomination. Detachable checks were intended for settlements by certain categories of citizens for goods and services on Soviet cruise ships operating on international routes. All checks were printed by GOZNAK.