Local issue caused by the revaluation of circulating stamps at a 1:100 ratio; a handwritten new denomination "1 rub" in red ink on a Russian 1-kopeck stamp.
Batraki, now Oktyabrsk, is a town in Russia's Samara Oblast.
A significant number of provisionals are associated with the Civil War of 1918–1922. At that time, there was no stable central government across most of the country, many regions became independent, and amid devastation and war there was substantial inflation. Frequent tariff changes and the inability to supply the postal network with stamps of the required denominations led to periodic revaluations of existing stock in accordance with instructions from the People's Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs of the RSFSR, which did not provide for any overprints. However, in some places certain post offices still applied overprints to the revalued stamps being sold, or simply wrote the new value on them by hand. All these stamps are characterized by an extremely simple technique of applying the overprints.