3rd issue commissioned by the Postal Administration of the Altai Republic.
A large number of provisional issues also appeared in modern Russia in the early 1990s. After liberalizing prices, T. Gaidar's government set Russia's economy adrift into a free market. As a result, for several years hyperinflation ruled the country. All of this affected postal operations as well. In 1992–1993 alone, postal rates were changed six times. The rapid rise in postal tariffs forced post offices across the country to resort to issuing various kinds of provisionals. At first, overprints were made on USSR postage stamps still held in stock, and revaluation handstamps were applied to postal stationery. As stocks of stamps and postal stationery ran out, issues of surrogate postage payment signs began to appear. This happened everywhere across the country.