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1 Rouble Berezinsky Biosphere Nature Reserve. Beaver
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Value | 1 Rouble (1 BYR) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Mintage | 2002 - Prooflike - 5,000 |
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Belarus launched its wildlife conservation series in the early 2000s partly as a matter of national identity — the Berezinsky Reserve, established in 1925 in the Vitebsk region, is one of the oldest biosphere reserves in Europe and was among the first Soviet-era protected zones to receive UNESCO biosphere status in 1978. The Eurasian beaver had been hunted to near-extinction across the continent by the early twentieth century; Berezinsky became one of the key breeding refuges responsible for the species' recovery in the western USSR.
Copper-nickel circulation-quality commemoratives from this Belarusian series were struck in modest numbers and saw little actual commerce.