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1 Rouble Christianizing of Rus
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Value | 1 Rouble (1 BYR) |
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| Obverse description | The state arms of Belarus appears in relief at the top of the obverse field. Below the arms, the logo of the Belarusian Orthodox Church is centrally positioned within a circular ornamental border. Surrounding legends in Cyrillic script arc along the upper and lower portions of the field, identifying the issuing church authority and the republic, with the denomination rendered at the bottom. |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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The Christianization of Rus in 988 AD under Vladimir the Great remains one of the most consequential political acts in Eastern European history — a forced mass baptism in the Dnieper River that reoriented Kievan culture toward Byzantium and away from the Varangian north. Belarus, as a successor state within the old Rus territories, has returned to this event repeatedly in its commemorative program, framing it as a founding moment of national identity rather than a specifically Russian or Ukrainian one — a reading that remains politically charged given the overlapping claims all three modern states make on Kievan Rus heritage.