Due to the shortage of notes issued by the BOP cooperative, the plant’s bakery issued its own notes in the form of perforated coupons. The size of the issue was 122,500 rubles.
Aleksandrovsk was a uyezd (district) town of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate; in 1921 it was renamed Zaporizhzhia.
Yekaterinoslav was a center of the Civil War in Ukraine. Power changed hands there with astonishing speed, and there were even periods when several authorities (up to seven at once) were simultaneously located in different parts of the city, fighting fierce battles with one another. Under such circumstances, the severity of the monetary crisis—due to the lack of small change—did not diminish. Therefore, various institutions, cooperatives, and individual shops were forced to issue their own money in the guise of notes, tokens, coupons, warrants, and the like.