3rd issue commissioned by the Postal Administration of the Altai Republic.
Many provisional issues also appeared in modern Russia in the early 1990s. By liberalizing prices, T. Gaidar's government set Russia's economy afloat in a free market. As a result, for several years hyperinflation dominated the country. All of this affected postal operations as well. In 1992–1993 alone, six changes to postal rates were introduced. The rapid rise in postal tariffs forced post offices across the country to resort to issuing various kinds of provisional stamps. At first, overprints were made on USSR postage stamps 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 appeared. This happened everywhere throughout the country.