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1 Rouble Augustow Canal
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a detailed cartographic depiction of the Grodno Region of Belarus occupying the central field, rendered with regional boundaries, waterways, and topographic detail. The state emblem of the Republic of Belarus appears at the top center above the map. The legend РЭСПУБЛІКА БЕЛАРУСЬ (Republic of Belarus) arcs along the upper periphery in Cyrillic script, while the denomination 1 РУБЕЛЬ (1 Rouble) is inscribed along the lower rim. The date 2024 appears at the lower left, and the regional inscription ГРОДЗЕНСКАЯ ВОБЛАСЦЬ (Grodno Region) is positioned at the lower center. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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The Augustów Canal, completed in 1839 after nearly a decade of construction under Russian Imperial engineers, was built to bypass Prussian customs controls that were strangling Polish-Lithuanian trade routes to the Baltic. It remains one of the best-preserved early 19th-century canal systems in Europe, still navigable across the Belarus-Poland border today — an unusual piece of infrastructure that survived two world wars largely intact.