At the end of 1921, Khabarovsk was occupied by the troops of the Provisional Priamur (Merkulov) Government.
The troops that entered the city, together with the administrative bodies accompanying them, brought with them the currency in circulation in Vladivostok—yen-denominated notes. After several months of occupation of Khabarovsk, the city was liberated by units of the Far Eastern Republic’s army, and from that time—spring 1922—it again became part of the Far Eastern Republic.
By 1922, the Republic’s monetary circulation had fully shifted to a gold monetary unit, with subsidiary silver coinage—bank and billon.
This same coin became the sole instrument of monetary circulation in the Khabarovsk area as well.
However, even after a return to transactions in Russian hard coin, deals in foreign currency still continued. The main reason for this was a shortage of Russian coin, particularly small change.
This circumstance led to the issuance of proprietary scrip by cooperatives serving military units quartered in Khabarovsk. Thus, in July 1922, the “Military Cooperative Association of the Khabarovsk Garrison” put into circulation its own scrip in denominations of 1, 2, 3, and 5 “kopeks in gold.” The redemption date for these notes was set as January 1, 1923.