For a long time, the Soviet Union did not consider itself the successor of the tsarist empire. Only in the Gorbachev period did the country recognize this right. The government of our country has paid huge debts for which the western countries claimed. However, for some reason no one wanted to recover the gold reserves, which flowed in abundant flows and settled in foreign banks after the revolution during the civil war.
The basis of the stability and prosperity of any state is the presence of gold reserves. In the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century there were 1,338 tons. Participation in the military campaign has somewhat reduced gold reserves, but their volumes continued to be impressive. The main part of gold was placed in banks of St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Riga and Kiev. Fearing the onset of enemies, in 1915 he was transported inland to the Volga region.
It was in this region that the positions of the White Guard were strong after the Bolsheviks seized power. The Red Army attempted to acquire the gold stored in Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod, but they did not succeed.
The gold and foreign currency reserves have become an aid to the army under the command of Admiral Kolchak. They were delivered to Omsk, where the headquarters of the main ruler was located. Then the cars loaded with gold were redirected to Nizhneudinsk away from the advancing Red Army. For the revival of the empire, Kolchak bought weapons and uniforms for the soldiers, money poured into the financial sphere of Britain, the USA and Japan. The largest tranches were shipments to Japan. The Yokohama Rush Bank became the largest in the land of the rising sun on these investments.
Part of the gold, named Kolchak, was used by the ataman Semenov, who captured several precious echelons. He also made purchases in Japan, where he transferred gold reserves.
The fate of Kolchak himself is known to all: he was betrayed by the general of the Entente, handed over to the Soviet authorities, who shot him.
The question of the fate of the gold reserves of the Russian Empire remains open. None of the current rulers of Japan or the Western powers are not trying to return the billions deposited in their banks a hundred years ago. And they would become a good “pillow” for the Russian economy.